Word: relevantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the first snowfall of my freshman year had fallen, I was upset over the way things at Harvard were going for me. The food tasted like a science project, my dorm was full of men whose only idea of activism was a sallow girl named Joanne, and none...
Critic Harold Rosenberg is absolutely right: "No artist is more relevant than Steinberg" [April 17]. To avoid boredom, he has doodled his way into the realm of the art world as a "serious" artist.
"Without exception, all major black institutions in South Africa want foreign corporations to get out," Nteta said yesterday, adding, "U.S. corporations might pay more but that's not relevant--black Africans want to take control over their own destiny.
...Well well. Hmmm.... Yes. Hate to say it, but I think this film is shit. That's a highly personal opinion--the movie won a ton of Oscars and has left millions sobbing away for poor Natalie Wood. Steal "Romeo and Juliet"--or borrow it under the pretense of "relevantizing" it (as if it weren't already relevant), throw in some beautiful and awful songs and bits of schlockified Copland by Leonard Bernstein, give it a pseudo-daring "tough" script by ol' Arthur Laurents.... well, the ingredients are right for a classic stage, and then film musical. The Whites against...
Willard R. Johnson, an MIT professor who spoke at the demonstration, said yesterday he sought to denounce the Sullivan Six Principles, "which will be relevant only after there is an acceptance of basic human and political rights in South Africa."