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Today Miller sits in an opulent office that is a relic of the U.M.W.'s autocratic era. "I am not comfortable here in Washington," he told TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan. "I would prefer being down in the coal fields with the membership." He lives in a simple bachelor apartment in the capital, returning on weekends to the Cabin Creek hamlet of Ohley. His wife Virginia remains there in a tiny, plain frame house on an old road near the creek. The Millers have two children, Larry, 22, an electronics technician, and Vicki, 20, a student. Some day Miller intends...
...actually exists in the remote upstate New York hamlet of Tivoli (pop. 800). It is embodied in Lawrence Gilbert Broad-moore, 23, who has successfully propelled himself, not forward, but backward, into a proper Victorian environment. Totally rejecting contemporary values, mores, language and technology, Broadmoore is a self-made relic, a Thoreau in retreat from time...
...relevance in the curriculum at least illustrate that at today's Harvard the idea of a gentleman's education as a means of marking him off from the masses and guaranteeing his own future more abundant life, with no reference to wider concerns, is little more than a shriveled relic from some pre-democratic incarnation of our present society--even more shriveled than in the 1950's, I think. Harvard has not adopted the extreme activist view that every course must deal with the latest crises, or that those which do should be managed as base camps for relief expeditions...
...people, both black and white, don't buy Leonard's liberal dream anymore. In some ways, Leonard, a life member of the NAACP who gave up a business career in Atlanta when he was 35 to enter Howard Law School, is a relic of an earlier age of black activism. If he and militant black students do not see eye to eye it is no accident. But Leonard persists, trying to do what he can to make the system work...
...this is how they were meant to be seen: gold was not a means of exchange in pre-Hispanic Colombia, for its origins were held to be divine. It had not become what John Maynard Keynes called "a barbarous relic." Fort Knox and Tiffany have corrupted our responses to gold in art, but this remarkable show does at least enable one to get some sense of a culture in which the metal was not yet ruined, as a sculptural material, by its role as an economic fetish...