Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view from North Mountain is optimistic-until the visitor spots the signs warning: "Photography Prohibited." The reason? The mountain's northern slopes, facing the Demilitarized Zone 25 miles away, are pockmarked with carefully camouflaged bunkers and lookout posts. Should the North Koreans break through at the border once more as they did in 1950, North Mountain would be part of Seoul's last line of defense...
However commendable, the faculty's unwillingness to negotiate under the gun brought a new flood of passion. What the majority had overlooked was another perception: in the view of some professors and students, the blacks had been treated unfairly by Cornell's judicial system and had armed themselves only in self-defense. The blacks skillfully played on those feelings...
...ideas are outrageous, as he apparently intends them to be. De Maria aims not to please but to force the viewer into studying his work and puzzling out its meanings. If the effort is infuriating more often than not, that makes no difference in De Maria's view...
...angry red fists in Harvard Yard. "A human being will insist on being treated as a person," he writes, "even if the only way he can secure personal attention is to get himself knocked on the head by a policeman's truncheon." The enemy, in Toynbee's view, is not simply the Establishment or the Kremlin or the Pentagon but "competitive Individualism, bee-like or antlike Communism, and tribal-minded Nationalism." Such things, Toynbee argues, are responsible for creating "a Boyg-like smog of impersonal relations." Readers of Ibsen's Peer Gynt are expected to recall that...
...Inquisition), a man whose life has drifted away from him without his realizing it. He had sold out when he married an Italian girl who had a lot of money and now he is bored. He goes to a party with his wife. The camera follows his point of view as he wanders around the party aimlessly staring at the people there, always puffing on his Gauloise Bleue. In a highly stylized sequence, different groups of Beautiful People repeat verbatim ads they had heard on the tube about cars and shampoo. Belmondo reacts to this with the same inane nonchalance...