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...this nation have grown geometrically. The American people know more, are troubled more. Hints of strain back then have become deep divisions in society. Yet Nixon has not tended the shop. He has not, in fact, worked hard enough at the job. That does not mean a President must shout and heave like Lyndon Johnson. But a President must stay in there and slug away from dawn to night. Take breaks, certainly. But all these experiments in running a government from the banks of the Pedernales or the Pacific shore are exercises in selfdelusion. Washington is home and office...
...flip, slick and sexy, they also brim with menace. When they are funny, which is often, it is with the precarious humor of Harold Lloyd teetering on the edge of a cliff, or Charlie Chaplin falling into a machine. The pictures visually crowd the spectator, jostle and shout at him. All the vernacular of commercialism-billboards, neon signs, girlie magazines, comic books-provides the imagery. By using such familiar props, the Pop artists are commenting on the new urban landscape of supermarkets and motel rooms, of roadsides and TV commercials, a civilization in which the old-fashioned nature celebrated...
...last analysis," wrote Marcel Duchamp, the most cerebral artist of the 20th century, "the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that, finally, posterity includes him in the primers of art history." Right now Oldenburg-and some of his fellow Popsters as well-seems assured of a place in the primers...
Pierson said, "Rubin told me, 'We've got to have new Chicagos everywhere. We've got to have riots in other cities.' I told him he could count on me to fight the pigs with him anywhere." Pierson also said he heard Rubin shout "Kill the pigs, kill the pigs" during a demonstration...
...library, and less stringent degree requirements convinced the students that the faculty and administration didn't want to and couldn't do anything. Traditionally docile to their professors and fatalistic about their futures, French students goaded by Cohn-Bendit began to challege their professors and then to insult them, shout them down, and denounce them as charlatans in a repressive university...