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Arcosanti receives periodic pummelings from discontented workshoppers and journalists. Soleri and his group shrug them off. Their commitment to the future certainly seems sincere. They are people who want to be part of something big and good and natural. Each year they cele brate the solstices and the equinoxes with all the abandon of 18th century English villagers gamboling round the Maypole on May Day. It was during one of these festivals that a cast-aluminum figure of Icarus was hung from the top of a 34-ft. vault, where it remained for many months. The symbolism was perhaps unintended...
...intimate lore is conspicuous and feverish enough to have provoked some thought about the implications of the trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor requires that anybody's, let alone everybody...
...Harvard is to serve its students, it will have to take an assertive role in the years to come: either shrug off the academic ideals and turn to athletic mass production; or step in, stop the win-at-all-cost attitude now taking hold, and restructure the athletics program to a level compatible with Ivy League education. Right now, rigorous sports programs prevent many athletes form enjoying the numerous benefits of an Ivy education. It is a tragedy for an athlete to come to Harvard and then never have a chance to soak, up its scholarship because...
White "majority" students can (and did Saturday night) shrug their shoulders, and write off what happened in Tommy's as an "isolated incident." I cannot. I know better. This ignorant "townie" could easily have been a Harvard student, as was shown by the PBH har assment a few weeks...
...boom, boom, boom, boom. It is more like chi-boom, chi-boom, chi-boom. Come down easy on the offbeat, like a rhythmic shrug of the shoulders. Kind of bluesy. Kind of calypso. Kind...