Word: unlearn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underscores all of Degas' work. Cultivating his credentials as a budding talent at the Cafe Guerbois in the early days of his career, Degas kept company with many of the great impressionists. These aesthetic revolutionaries sometimes went so far in theory as to advocate that an artist try to unlearn all the stylistic tricks of the trade, plant his easel in the middle of the wilderness and let nature itself rule his brush. Degas, however, eschewed this "surrender to nature" and insisted that the final construction and perfection of an artistic vision must take place in the mind...
...also hope that Dr. Greif understands that I have no investment in making him feel bad: I simply don't like him wasting my time and do feel that he has a lot to unlearn. Sheila Hoffman
This is the official line of Harvard, or as close as there comes to being an official line. I began to unlearn it immediately, naturally, and I recently decided that many of Harvard's better features are suggested in some lines of Ezra Pound about a tradition that there can be honesty of mind without overwhelming talent. My first encounter with Science at Harvard, for example, came during my first and pretty nearly my last bridge game there. It came a few weeks after the assistant dean's explanation, which it seemed to call into question, if not to contradict...
...sooner does a generation unlearn a racial epithet than the stigma loses its sting. Consider, for example, the burgeoning controversy over the title of a new Western film. The Legend of Nigger Charley. Paramount released the movie with the "historical explanation" that the character of Nigger Charley was based on black cowboys who roamed the West after the Civil War -a period in which the term was in common currency and not necessarily derogative. But Charley's well-documented credentials failed to satisfy a number of newspaper, television and radio advertising executives. For example, the Oregonian first changed...
...although not as rapidly for blacks and Chicanos as for whites and Asians. The problem for the slower students seems to be time. Says Dr. Arthur D. Dambacher of Berkeley's office of research: "The younger the youngster involved, the more positive the results?they don't have to unlearn habits picked up in a segregated setting...