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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ranging from a prohibition on hanging banners with racial epithets in the Yard to specifications for canceling a speaking event, the proposed guidelines are more than likely to prompt a controversy of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Speak or Not | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Ranging from a prohibition on hanging banners with racial epithets in the Yard to specifications for canceling a speaking event, the proposed guidelines are more than likely to prompt a controversy of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Speak or Not | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...unlike Krasner, Frankenthaler did prompt a change in the style of American painting that, though it seems less momentous now than it did 20 years ago, was quite decisive. This was the passage from De Kooning-style "gesture" (the most imitated side of '50s painting) to allover soaking and staining, derived from Pollock and Miro via Frankenthaler. No doubt, in the end, even the toughest woman artist shrinks from constantly hearing that she painted a "seminal work," but Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea, 1952, was certainly generative. It was the picture that provoked American color- field painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Love of Spontaneous Gesture | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...expected to be a full citizen of the University, you simply cannot work at a rate that is any more rapid than your senior colleagues," says Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord, an English Department professor whose recent tenure denial helped prompt the meeting with Bok. "They don't produce at a rate that would qualify them for tenure at Harvard...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Should Service Be Considered in Tenure? | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...Washington's game plan remains vague. The Administration has pledged that no deal will be cut with Noriega to quash the drug indictments. And a high-level official says that a fraudulent election will prompt the U.S. to consider new "diplomatic, intelligence and military" options, the first time the Bush team has suggested an armed intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama Sparring (Again) with a Dictator | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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