Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite decisive. This was the passage from De Kooning-style "gesture" (the most imitated side of '50s painting) to allover soaking and staining, derived from Pollock and Miro via Frankenthaler. No doubt, in the end, even the toughest woman artist shrinks from constantly hearing that she painted a "seminal work," but Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea, 1952, was certainly generative. It was the picture that provoked American color- field painting...
...word evokes quaint images of cabinetmakers or alchemists teaching eager youths the secrets of their trade. Yet apprenticeship -- the acquisition of knowledge through practice in the presence of a master -- is a time-tested teaching method whose applications go far beyond the shop floor. The principle is at work every time someone takes a total-immersion language lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means...
Moreover, even at Harvard, intellectual pursuits are often frowned-upon. It is unseemly to work "too hard," lest one become a geek, and talking with professors--often the best way to learn--is thought of as "brown-nosing." Much admired is the student who can get a "B" without studying, which detracts from more important pastimes such as playing a sport, partying oneself into senselessness, or watching TV and gossiping the night away...
Wilson: Quite a long time ago actually. In part because I had the opportunity to work with two very distinguished gentlemen. They invited me to join them. I decided that the opportunity for professional growth was better there than I thought it would be doing what I was doing so I took a deep breath and left. And I'm very glad I did. I missed teaching, but I used to construct opportunities for teaching along...
...giddy moment of multi-cultural promise passed all too quickly. Only three weeks later, an elaborate, College-sponsored program specifically for Harvard titled AWARE--Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism--flopped because of student disinterest, non-attendance. Billed as a means to work out mounting racial tensions on campus and targeted largely at the white community, the week of activities was supposed to help resolve "racism among the well-intentioned...