Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixties and the demise of some of the more obvious villians only made it clear, to those who still cared, how little immediate causes and obvious villians are at the root of what is wrong. The United States government still allies itself with murderers and exploiters, and vast inequities persist, and larger systems still manipulate peoples' lives. None of what has happened--the NLF's victory, or Nixon's resignation, or reforms in the CIA--seem to have much to do with these root problems; indeed, the changes of the last few years will only allow their causes to continue...
...story without any villains, the story of what is left in the wake of a period of idealism and vision that failed. Its central characteristic is not an embracing of the status quo or a blindness to its failings, but a sense of its irrevocability. The vast majority of students here see no alternative at all to the set of values that is presented to them in their time at Harvard; there is nothing else, usually not even a sense of place, for them to feel rooted in, and they are left with no choice...
...scientifically established that many persons can be made ill by exposure to intense smoke from others. In addition, a vast majority of the non-smokers find such exposure uncomfortable and unpleasant. It is much too serious a problem to have fun poked by a tongue-in-cheek essay...
...there is an eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still. The history of abstract expressionism, the movement that did most to coalesce the once frail identity of American art, is unimaginable without his vast Wagnerian canvases. But 15 years have passed since Still quit Manhattan in disgust for a ten-acre farm in Westminster, Md., and during that time his execrations of the "arrogant farce" of the art world-its neuroses, its museums, its critics, and their failure to come to grips with his work-have not ceased to be heard. He is the Coriolanus...
...increasing profits, and who detail their travels abroad and the cultural events they witness in their leisure, have little or nothing to say about their contributions toward making our society a better place in which to live. Nor do they express concern for the problems and welfare of the vast majority of those less fortunate than themselves...