Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this doesn't mean that Dunlop was some paragon of virtue. His conservative stands on questions like University discipline, the Afro-American Studies Department and graduate student rights did much to undermine the halting progress being made at Harvard in the late sixties. He threw his weight behind the repressive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, building a sequestered fortress for the CRR atop Holyoke Center so it could kick out dissidents in peace. He orchestrated the offensive against the Afro-American Studies Department which culminated in the restructuring of the Department in January: even after leaving for Washington, he explicitly...
...ways to defuse Union support eventually. His positions on these and other issues were undoubtedly no more reactionary than the views adhered to by most of his colleagues in the Administration or the Faculty, but his talent at translating them into reality made him a more effective roadblock to progress...
Pompidou emphasized the "extreme importance" of the U.S. military presence in Europe, as well as his own interest in early progress on monetary reform. Pompidou could claim at least one potentially significant victory. The U.S. had been toying with the notion of creating a new forum for the forthcoming negotiations on trade and currency reform. Pompidou, wary of U.S. efforts to "link" the various negotiations for bargaining advantage, insisted successfully that the negotiations be handled through existing institutions...
...roadway-trainers on their errands, exercise boys and jockey agents going from barn to barn, owners arriving to see their horses work out. But the cars move slowly, with scarcely a sound, partly because this is the code of racetrackers, partly because those unfamiliar with the code find their progress slowed by high bumps built into the roads and a succession of signs that read YIELD: HORSE CROSSING...
...sharp metaphor for what the modern artist in any field must accomplish. In the twentieth century, to be an artist means to assemble available bits and pieces into a new order. The show of collages by Robert Motherwell now at the Museum of Fine Arts demonstrates the progress of the medium under the hands of one its most skillful practitioners since Picasso. Motherwell's collages, like those of the Cubists or of Kurt Schwitters, attempt to bring a new kind of immediate reality back into painting in place of the new excluded reality of representation. At the same time these...