Word: spokesperson
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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Sontag came to prominence in the middle sixties as a radical critic of culture, spokesperson for the New Sensibility. The New Sensibility praised form and damned content. It was against interpretation and for an anesthetic revolution founded on the non-literary arts of music, painting, film and architecture. In its pantheon were Jasper Johns and John Cage, Roland Barthes and Jean-Luc Godard, Buckminister Fuller and Alain Robbe-Grillet...
President Nixon tells Indians occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs to clean up and get a job. "There is no place for us in American Society," claims aborigine spokesperson Jane Fonda. "That's what the Washington Redskins were saying five years ago." Nixon replies, "and look where they are today," F. Skiddy von Stade '38 observes that there "would be no issue at all" about equal admissions if Radcliffe girls were "four times more promiscuous." A. Edward Heimer '49 Master of Eliot House, derides the suggestion as "an impossibility" but L. Fred Jewett '59 decides...