Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept to itself, shouldering its burdens without appealing to the outside for aid. A history of discrimination at the hands of the American government has taught the Chinese not to expect help from that source. Because so many Chinese Americans have risen to professional positions and a comfortable standard of living, most Americans are unaware of the seriousness of the problems confronting their country's Chinatowns. As Douglas Lee '76 puts it, "When you see an Asian, you usually figure he's a doctor or a laundryman. People tend to notice only the doctor; they never see the laundryman...
This ability to take a standard assignment and make something more out of it comes through most clearly in the exhibit in one work--a traditional study of a human head. William Maroni's charcoal head of a woman is a study in how to make three dimensional forms by light and shading, and also in how to bring a piece of paper to life with a pair of powerful eyes. It is a very fine, sensitive drawing and one of the high points of the show...
What we should rely on are the principles set forward at the end of World War II. These principles do not embody perfect justice or solve all the moral dilemmas raised by warfare, but they provide a rough and ready standard. The fact that some of the biggest war criminals are still at large, and in many cases still in power, need not paralyze us into taking no action at all against others responsible, though perhaps responsible on a different level. The argument is especially weak since no direct action against ex-torturers and ex-secret police is being contemplated...
...without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage. "But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous." By that standard, John Schlesinger's film is nothing less than a tragedy...
...Deeds. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually invoked as a standard of corporate liberalism by which American television is unfavorably judged, is deeply involved in the struggle over The Memory of Justice. After a screening of Ophuls' original version of the film, one BBC official offered that classic Hollywood criticism: "My ass hurt...