Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TODAY'S meeting, however, is a beginning. It is a start towards what Debbie Batts, RUS President, sees as responsible cooperation between the administration and students on problems of concern to both. This is how the Trustees should see it, too; Miss Batts' is not an unreasonable vision. It is definitely not an attempt by a group of power-hungry Miss Mitties to take over the College, as Miss Batts and her very sober co-officers have stressed over and over again...
THIS overriding, single vision of an order of nature being hacked to pieces is likely to make an outsider squirm. As an emotional reaction, there is something to it: people who feel a little awed at the top of a mountain, or even those who prickle when they hear a Simon and Garfunkel record, are likely to know what he means. But it's easy for talk like that to degenerate into guff, and Brower seems somewhat uncomfortable when he has to play the role of visionary...
...GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Arthur Koestler. A reasoned diatribe against the hubris of the scientific establishment, whose horizons, says the author, have outstretched its vision...
Machine-Made Vision. The sculptor mining the modular vein who has attracted the most attention this season is Donald Judd, 39, known among minimal fans as the most severe and uncompromising of the "dumb box boys." For Judd, a box is a box is a box, and nothing more; free associations are forbidden. Judd's monumental boxes and series of boxes currently cram the warehouse-sized third floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum in a one-man show dubbed "a chilling triumph" by partisans, and "pedestals in search of a nude" by less admiring observers...
SAUL STEINBERG plays with your mind. In his world, ornate vases tower over insubstantial people while gunny sacks and trash cans become city streets. His work is intimately contemporary, deliberately shirking any monumentality. With a draughtsman's feeling for line and form, a unique vision of twentieth century civilization and a not unsympathetic sense of satire, he fuses visual and psychological worlds...