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## Council MARINA PACINI I know of no other enterprise in this area which so consistently offers an accurate view of the current scene comparable to that to be found on [sic] your programs. You don't always hit it just right . . but you do always try which is, perhaps, more important. I want you to keep trying, pushing further and further into the new and further and further away from the strong Philadelphia tendency to remain rooted in the past. I am not against the past and, as an art historian, would be badly off if it didn't exist. But I do think that a knowledge of the possibilities of the future are more important than an understanding of the past. And that is what you, at your best, are offering those poor unfortunates who ordinarily see only what is available outside of New York. BERNARD HANSON, Chairman of the Liberal Arts Department, Philadelphia College of Art, December 1966.' Bernard Hanson's letter was written in support of an underground film festival and mixed-media discotheque event that had provoked a controversy regarding the kind of programming undertaken by the Arts Council, a vol-unteer organization sponsored by the Young Men's/ Women's Hebrew Association (YM/Y

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Author

Marina Pacini

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)