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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most successful modern users of the camera as an aid to painting are the U.S.'s Howard Kanovitz and Britain's Malcolm Morley, both of whom use photography as a way to probe that old Platonic question. Says Kanovitz: "Certainly the film Rashomon and, more recently, the Warren Commission report illustrate how impossible it is to 'tell it the way it really is.' " Adds Morley: "Realism hasn't even been dealt with in the 20th century. The Ashcan School were all preachers, and pop artists are busy trying to make their painting abstract...
...universities have long been separated by a bitter heritage of hate and suspicion. Trinity College (enrollment: 3,500) is Protestant, England-oriented, aristocratic. University College (7,325) is Roman Catholic, nationalist, middle class. Relations between the two are so frosty that, when the Irish government recently offered them joint use of a veterinary school, the colleges balked at sharing the same faculty and instead created overlapping, independent staffs. Now, however, Ireland's Ministry of Education has taken a major step toward ending the rivalry. Under a plan of union revealed last month, the two schools will be merged...
Cultural Rebellion. Whether or not they favor pot, many clergymen condemn strict laws against its use. Dr. James Donaldson of the Los Angeles Council of Churches believes that the severe penalties "fall not only on gangsters but on young people experimenting with cultural rebellion." Others argue that antimarijuana laws are an unfortunate attempt to legislate morality. Like the laws of Prohibition, they feel, such laws are bound to be dropped from the books as more and more people come to accept pot as simply another of life's pleasures. Questioning the morality of marijuana, says Father Richard Mann...
...self-realization." Others suggest that the morality of pot smoking depends on whether or not it is psychologically helpful to an individual. If marijuana is a crutch or a way of escape, says Methodist Minister Terry Cooper of Los Angeles, then it is damaging for an individual to use it. If it is a stimulus to creativity or simply a means of relaxing, there is no ethical problem...
...fast becoming a more representative figure in Kenya than Mr. Shida. In its eagerness to develop a native cadre of businessmen, however, Kenya must use restraint. Pressed by the government to aid in the effort, many non-African businessmen note that effective training takes time. And a group of University of Nairobi economists, African and white alike, has warned that Africanization, essential as it is, could impair Kenya's continued economic growth if pushed too fast...