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Art in
Indonesia
Continuities
and Change
By CLAIRE HOLT. The intriguing
world of Indonesian art
is explored in this unusual and
beautiful book. The author,
who combines experience as a
sculptor and dancer with archaeological
knowledge and
linguistic skills, traces the plastic
and performing arts through
all the major periods of Indonesian
history up to the present.
By examining individual
paintings, sculpture, and architectural
monuments as well as
mask plays, dance dramas, and
shadow plays, she reveals a
highly individualistic and rich
artistic tradition. With more
than two hundred striking illustrations,
many showing objects
never before reproduced,
the book is a work of extraordinary
scope and beauty.
196 halftones, 4 color plates, 8
figures, 2 maps, glossary. 8V2" x
z", 372 pages.
$18.50
Cornell University Press
ITHACA, NEW YORK 14850
Being Republicans does not insulate faculty
members from Mr. Tuller's charges
of being socialists or leftists, but it does
raise a question about the reality, as opposed
to the appearance, of the social
and political philosophy of faculty members.
There seems to be a distinct tendency
to judge the university from a relatively
small sample. Prof. Alfred E. Kahn,
economics, was for many years held up
by critics as the prime example of the
university's "socialist" thinking, based to
a great extent on his being chairman of
the Department of Economics in the College
of Arts & Sciences, and upon some
testimony he once gave on anti-trust
matters. There followed a long exchange
of letters and visits between Mr. Tuller
and Professor Kahn, during which they
came to know one another well. Criticism
has since shifted to another member
of the economics faculty, Prof. Douglas
Dowd, for a combination of his expressed
political beliefs and for his activity
in behalf of activist causes.
Student conduct, the Cornell Daily
Sun, and other universities come into the
argument when one presses CACBE
members beyond the written statements
of Mr. Tuller. "Student dress, student
dirtyness, obscenity" are all issues that
worry CACBE members and feed their
unhappiness. "This is not an attack on
Cornell," one pointed out to me last
month, "it's an attack on Keynesianism,
on Harvard if you would, on a universal
sickness."
The second part of the difference of
opinion between Mr. Tuller and the university
has to do with the appropriateness
and even the practicality of establishing
a particular point of view within
the self-governing framework of a university,
even if it is deemed fair or
necessary.
Mr. Tuller explained in a letter to
alumni how he sought in 1959 to deal
with the organizational question:
I think it was later in the month of May
that [former] Dean Sheppard proposed to
me that I endow a chair in the School of
Business which would have as its purpose the
promotion of the free enterprise philosophy
in a variety of ways; by teaching, public
lectures, both on campus and over radio
and television, by writing, which would be
given as wide publicity as possible, and with
research in certain areas where it appeared
it would be most fruitful. I was very
favorably inclined toward this idea, and we
considered at length what could be done
under such a program; what individuals
might be available as occupants of the Chair
and what the title of the Chair should be.
The latter proved to be quite a stumbling
block because I wanted to make it indicative
of its real purpose while the Dean was
Cornell University
Summer Session—1967
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