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...director and students, of the Harvard Foundation have also successfully petitioned the deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] for several new Ethnic Studies courses in the curriculum (including Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century, Asian-American Culture and history and Chicano Politics). In an effort to help increase the number of minority faculty of Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, Asian-American, African-American and Native American Indian backgrounds, the students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation have collected the resumes of dozens of professors across the nation, presented them to the Faculty and secured the appointment of numerous...
...still impossible to explain fully. They shouldered their way into politics as resentful, hate-filled egoists, but so did thousands of their contemporaries. To anyone scrutinizing the young Hitler or Stalin, writes Alan Bullock, the Oxford University historian, "a suggestion that he would play a major role in twentieth-century history would have appeared incredible." At 30, Hitler was a street-corner speechmaker in Munich, and Stalin was in prison for plotting an oil workers' strike in Baku...
...exhibition includes a patterned succession of sketches, lithographs, Aquatints, canvases and sculptures which draw together many of the aspects of early and mid-twentieth century art. All of the artists display their tendencies towards the abstraction of form and contour, a characteristic of the trend that modern art has created...
Warhol, whose images of such American cultural staples as soup cans and Marilyn Monroe forms an enormous part of late twentieth century Americana, can be looked at as the ultimate superstar. Meanwhile, Beuys, whose innovative experimentations with assorted media and methods of visual expression, is commonly viewed as a sort of artist-as-sorcerer, or shaman...
...Clandon, played by Gay Swirsky in a furtrimmed hat, is a well-preserved woman determined in her espousal of "twentieth century principles." She stridently avows her support of women's rights to vote, own property and read Darwin...