Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer these questions, Schapiro discusses the social forces and the reactions to modern art that have influenced the artistic personality. Most significantly, the modern artist does not use reality as a source of inspiration but instead finds it constraining or destructive. To escape the confines of reality, the modern artist has abandoned the recognizable objects that limit the artistic imagination...
While this absurd theorizing is highly personal, Schapiro offers more intelligible essays that fall into two main bodies: first, a technical historical approach to particular artists' work; and second, an examination of the psychological and social pressures manifest in an artist's work...
...turned down by the Brandeis administration for what I can only believe to be political reasons," Richard A. Cloward, professor of social work at Columbia University, said yesterday. Cloward said he has always been "on the left" and is involved in the civil rights movement...
Jack Goldstein, dean of the faculty at Brandeis yesterday refused to comment on the rejection of Cloward's appointment to the Heller School of Advanced Studies and Social Welfare at Brandeis...
...committed to social and political change to any degree, a broader, long-term political understanding is necessary. Change, at least in the U.S., comes painstakingly slowly, and thus, the long term perspective is critical. The members and staff of the UFW exemplify this understanding as they have never ceased to gage their efforts in not only the short, but also in the long term...