Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form of the protest-still open to revision, the women at the meeting agreed-will ask women to wear a silk-screening of the Women's Liberation symbol and a 1-1 or equal sign pinned to the backs of their Commencement robes. Men will be invited to show support by wearing the 1-1 or equal sign on their robes...
...WILLIAMS explores the 26-year-old minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dexter was King's first pastorate, and at the time, he said with pride that it "was sort of a silk-stocking church catering only to a certain class." King's life-long friend, the late Louis Lomax, put it more bluntly. As Williams quotes him, "King well knew before he assumed the pastorate... that nonprofessional and uneducated Negroes were not welcome at the Dexter Avenue altar...
...television specials? King, whose conception of success before Montgomery was that of the insular notoriety of the well-respected minister of a silk-stocking church, discerned within the Zeitgeist the possibility of transcending this notion of success. This idea of becoming a national figure must have played with increasing regularity in King's mind as his press coverage and that of the boycott increased. Having been reared in an environment in which one's social position was, in part, evaluated by the number of one's citations on the society page of the Atlanta Daily World. King was sufficiently media...
...clouds and paintings like Red Race Riot, 1963-with singular force. A distillation had been made of the benumbing repetition of bad news in order to show that one should not be numbed. Characteristically, Warhol denied any such slant. Neither approval nor disapproval: the news photographs that produced these silk screens, he claimed, "just happened to be lying around," and he did not pick them. But why were they lying around? For all his elaborations of cool, Warhol has an apocalyptic side, a vision of interminable, inconclusive and somehow masturbatory disaster to which he adds no comment beyond ornamenting...
...million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility when Degas first exhibited it in 1881 that he never exhibited any other figure during his lifetime...