Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frame is part of the work, and within it -- always a wide, heavily molded, dark construction, its inner edges toned so that a white glow seems to be emanating from the picture itself -- one catches a glimpse of, say, a broad horizon, a band of achingly pure and silent sky, the trunk of a pine. The frame becomes a prison for a sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more: acid rain has stripped the needles off the pine...
Though Kilson has long debated tactics and goals with Black students on campus--he calls the 1960s radical activists "militants [who] couldn't really organize"--he had been silent recently...
...while divestment activism reached new heights this spring, the campus was silent on a raft of other issues that in another time would have filled the streets with shouting demonstrators. With the exception of a brief spell of protest against Reagan's proposed budget cuts in student financial aid and U.S. involvement in Central America, students here were silent...
...university should not get involved in politics," managed to call another meeting and get out resolution rescinded. But their reneging vote, much as they wanted not to think so, was just as political as ours. It was a failure to vote against that bad war and so was a silent vote that condoned it. Any act of respect by Harvard to "the office of the President," while Reagan holds it, would be just as political. One hundred thirty-seven years ago, during the Mexican War, one good Harvard graduate wrote: "How does it become a man to behave toward this...
...urge you to be realistic. You can't have that man up there without making Harvard, along with the television cameras, give him glory. Not only glory, but to some degree more power. It would necessarily be a silent vote, by a great institution, for him, condoning the dangerous threat he increasingly poses to our Republic and to peace and justice in the whole world. I urge you to call it off. William E. Rowley...