Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small works which look like abstract expressionist paintings, but were executed by building up the surface as much as three inches with spackle. The effect is that of stale cake frosting, limited to three colors -- charcoal, sickly pink, and dirty white -- knifed or squeezed onto the canvas. The paintings suggest parody of the rough, sculptural brush work of De Kooning, at the same time evidencing an interest in the ease with which forms advance from the canvas as well as recede into it. Considered alone, the paintings are hardly promising...
Harvard is planning for its financial future far in advance. And as graduation approaches, class agents are already out soliciting contributions from this year's senior class. The Dump Truck would like to take this opportunity to suggest a few ways in which the Class of '73 can share in building Harvard's billion dollar endowment...
Executives of major oil companies suggest a number of predictable remedies for the shortage: raise the oil-depletion allowance so that they can afford to spend more money on exploration; lift price controls so that they can raise gasoline prices to levels that would discourage consumption; and delay proposed federal antipollution standards that seem likely to cut auto gas mileage...
Harvard consistently cites financial difficulties as the obstacle to equal admissions. Such arguments are either circular or false. Figures from other colleges suggest increased coeducation does not diminish alumni contributions. By opening more places to women, Harvard will help create the capacity in more places to women to make large contributions to Harvard. Last year, the average pledge of Radcliffe seniors was higher than the average Harvard commencement pledge to the College Funds. A serious financial argument is possible only if you believe that women will never get equal wages for equal work, if you believe-as F. Skiddy...
...dying patients. He has found that they progress through several stages. At the last they have mystical experiences that Grof recognizes as similar to those "described for millennia in various temple mysteries, initiation rites and occult religions." Such experiences, Grof concludes, are intrinsic to human nature and "suggest the possibility of bridging the gap between contemporary science and ancient wisdom...