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...magazine, The Realist, made its name ten years ago (didn't know it was going that long did you?) as a scurrilous irreverent underground rag. In its latest issue though, Paul Krassner, the organization's guiding light, has turned to the more elevated purpose of spreading the hippies good word. The diggers, that nimble group of modern-day saints, were allowed to share their thing with those outside--40,000 copies worth...
...read The Realist. It is necessary and important to know that there are other potentialities and possibilities from those one tends to automatically veer towards, and even if one were to not rush out to set up a free community one could perhaps be moved in the mystical manner of the diggers. It is difficult to curb the fluttering feeling induced by phrase-segments like, "Free Time! Free Time? What was time before it was bought...
...least history," mused Depression-era Realist Thomas Hart Benton, 79. On hand to receive an honorary degree at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, Benton made a beeline for the old boardroom to inspect his wall-to-wall mural, Contemporary America. The crusty Missourian allowed that the 1930 painting reflected a nation entranced but not yet enslaved by technology. "Look at that train!" he said proudly, pointing out a black smoke-belching locomotive. "The machines of that day really had something for an artist. They weren't afraid to exhibit their power. Today's machines enclose...
...Miro, born in Spain in 1893, is one of the most well-known of the Surrealist painters of the '20's and '30's, a group fascinated, along with Andre Breton, in the potentialities of the Freudian dream state. At one end of the Surrealist school was the photographic realist Salvador Dali, and at the other was Miro, who employed for a while an automatistic method--that is, he began to paint without conscious thought and then continued consciously after studying what he had done...
...nothing happened. Christmas, exams, and a faltering candidate stopped the McCarthy movement in its tracks. McCarthy appeared to most "realistic" Harvard politicos as just another "dovish-fringe candidate without any political weight" as one "realist...