WALTER DE MARIA ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

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	WALTER DE MARIA ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

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10-27-2008 12:52 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/133da1b8-f0d5-46bb-ad39-9e2a44c4e9f0/761AF1E9-5272-4951-ABBF-ACFBB27DEAAB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/demari72.htm" href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/demari72.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.aaa.si.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/demari72.htm"><P>PC: Were the classes very competitive?</p> <P>WDM: Very competitive, and that in a way was the bad part which is I think 
  why the revolution of the Sixties had to happen, you know, people were so uptight 
  about getting good grades that . . . .</p> <P>PC: It exploded.</p> <P>WDM: That people were going to classes eight hours a day and studying eight 
  hours a day, you know, The competition was so keen and the kind of bureaucratic 
  nature of Berkeley, the beginning of the large classrooms, three, five hundred 
  people in a class, that kind of thing, and then having to deal with student 
  teachers and so forth. There was a lot of bad aspects at Berkeley, I mean its 
  over-competitiveness and its massiveness, its bureaucracy and its general . 
  . . well, you know it was like being inside the Pentagon or something. It was 
  like a heavy, almost governmental . . . .</p> <P>PC: Ritualistic and . . . .</p> <P>WDM: Yeah, very.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/761AF1E9-5272-4951-ABBF-ACFBB27DEAAB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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