Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrealism soon became a principal topic of conversation. The surrealist émigrés from Europe (Roberto Malta, André Masson, Max Ernst) arrived during World War II, and their intellectual intensity impressed the Americans. Some, including Motherwell and David Hare, worked with the surrealists and published in their small magazines. Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery gave many of the "new American pioneers" their first one-man shows...
...Instead of returning home immediately, he will join a U.S. company because "it will start out by giving me responsibility." His choice is Cresap, McCormick and Paget, a consulting firm that will pay him about $15,000. Even before graduation, he hired out as a consultant on his thesis topic-a computer-based method of protecting companies against currency devaluations...
Militant student action is the main topic of concern for those coming back, and many feel that they don't really understand it. Some say they are out of touch and just don't have the information to make a judgment about student radicalism, and activism. Others dismiss it as a "tiny minority." One expressed the feeling that students today are in a better position to challenge authority than ever before. He said students today are generally brighter and more politically oriented than ever before. Many expressed envy at the open unrest in today's college. "We didn't really...
...main topic of conversation, surpassing all reminiscences and talk of children and jobs, was the spring revolution. Most of the class backed President Pusey, while expressing some sympathy for the idealism of youth today...
...Klansman and argued in favor of the proposition that "Black Power is ruining America." Although the debate directors and the student himself said that their intent was harmless, black students objected immediately. A statement from a black freshman and the president of Afro said that the debate topic was comparable to "having a debate on the extermination of Jews--and bringing in one participant dressed as a Nazi...