Word: vis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitute for a carefully though-out program, of whatever scale, for artistic endeavor. Creative courses have been in an ambiguous position at Harvard since the dawn of the Visual Studies program in 1963. At present, no one is quite certain of their place; the adoption of Vis Stud, and of such courses as Hum 4 and Hum 105 has given a certain validity to the idea that Harvard has a program in the creative arts. But no one is planning it, no one is administering it, and no one has defined its purpose or its limts...
...observation." The prestige of science has been helped along by the analytic tradition of philosophy, which tends to limit "meaningful" ideas and statements to those that can be verified. It is no wonder, then, that even devout believers are empirical in outlook, and find themselves more at home with vis ible facts than unseen abstractions...
Chapter shows the end first: the new Diaspora after Hitler's "final solution" scattered the remaining Jews to the U.S. and Israel. Then the film tours the ancient village of Kazimierz on the Vis tula, where Jews first settled in Poland. Though Poland gave them nothing but space-on land they could not own-the Jews returned the favor tenfold over the centuries...
...around him. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, after giving the whites their lumps for "keeping the screws on," writes: "We will have ghetto upheavals until the Negro community itself, through the channels that societies have fashioned since tribal beginnings, takes firm charge of its destiny. Not its destiny vis-a-vis a cop on the beat, but its destiny in the world of adults...
...taking advantage of the equally fortuitous presence of the investments of our beneficent American capitalists in these countries, in the absence of which we would be free to promote our own revolutions against these dictators and could then offer large amounts of foreign aid in exchange for strict neutrality vis a vis the Great Red empires, can only be described as a flagrant offense to the American sense of fair play. Your attempt at covering up your total domination of Hanoi's foreign policy by ordering her to mold this policy around the Soviet Union's call for peaceful...