Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extending this tenuous hypothesis, there isn't anything wrong in living with a sense of the twenties and thirties dervied largely from films. The prevalent social movements were depicted by artists possessed of style, social vision, and unshakeable personal morality. Griffith's prohibition film, The Struggle, offers an audience an extraordinary perspective on an era, as do Lang's You Only Live Once, Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and of course Welles's Citizen Kane...
...split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated the human image but looked slapdash, crude and unfinished. Nonsense, replied the avantgarde; those traits were inevitable if a modern painter was to record his own vision...
...institution to depart from the standards of general critical opinion in forming a collection is a risky business. The success of the exhibit depends on the artistic and photographic judgment of the organizer of the show. M.I.T. took the risk, trusting in the photographic vision of their resident photo-genius, Minor White...
America is a charitable nation, and in its search to find something nice to say about the South, the North has cooked up the first Southern Myth, the dream of Southern Hospitality. This is a pleasant vision, made of equal parts of mint julep, placid plantations, charming belles, and singing darkies. Revelled in long enough, it can impart a kind of Mark Twain air to any town south of Minneapolis...
...addressed the broader educational issues raised by the Soc Rel 148 controversy. The staff submitted a detailed description of their vision of the course to Dean Ford and the Social Relations Department last week [see page 3]. The imbroglio must now be settled by the Department, which will probably judge the course on the basis of existing regulations. This is as it should be. The broader issues involve the entire Faculty, not just the Soc Rel Department. But if the problem is settled and then dropped, the most important lesson of 148 will be lost...