Word: slive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominees are Charles W. Eliot '20, professor of City and Regional Planning; Gregory Kepes, professor of Architecture at M.I.T.; Kevin Lynch, professor of City and Regional Planning at M.I.T.; Jose Luis Sert, professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design; Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts; and Benjamin Thompson, Chairman of the School of Design...
Apparently no one had bothered to inform the nominees of their nomination. Professor Slive, when he learned of his nomination, said, "I've been out of town for a couple of days. I really don't know what it's all about. What does a director do anyway...
...works discussed. Students are not trained to see. They learn about paintings and statues as historical events, not as unique creations capable of evoking intense emotional responses. The sensual aspects of art are completely obscured by the intellectual. Of course, not all Fine Arts courses commit these sins (Professor Slive's are frequently mentioned as exceptions), but most do. As a result, students who are interested in the visual arts but have no desire to become art historians develop a rebellious attitude toward the whole academic system...
...Prof. Freedberg's statements express the opinion of a majority of the Fine Arts Department, they by no means represent the opinion of all the Department's members. Three members, in fact, belong to the C.P.V.A. (Professors Coolidge, Ackerman and Slive) and one (Prof. Slive) is a member of its Executive Committee...
Three Faculty members interested in the relation of the undergraduate to the new center have been added to the committee: Reuben A. Brower, professor of English; Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; and Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, who will meet with the committee although he is currently on leave...