Word: absolutist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elderfield points out in a catalog essay, Matisse's luck with the critics has always been peculiar. At the outset, part of the tiny modern-art public in Paris thought his work incoherent, ugly. Others, like Gauguin's friend Maurice Denis, praised its absolutist devotion to "painting in itself, the pure act of painting." But there was never a shortage of critics who saw Matisse as a kind of magisterial lightweight. "It is a modiste's taste," wrote the poet Andre Salmon in 1912, "whose love of color equals the love of chiffon...
...definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture . . . on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity . . ." Yes, one can well imagine Magritte liking that. His work too sets up a parallel world, extremely strange and yet familiar, ruled by an absolutist imagination...
...Paul rejected any absolutist approach both to particular legal controversies and to the more enduring antitheses of the individual and society," Brennan said. "At times, Paul's emphasis on balance led him to criticize the court on which I served," he said...
...First Amendment absolutist position should not necessarily reign supreme in this issue, Kilson said. "Occasionally you have to rethink the boundaries between free speech and speech that harms and hurts. When the Nazis march in Skokie, Ill., before hundreds of Jews whose relatives died in the Holocaust--that's no longer speech, in my view. That's violence...
Those who question whether vital United States' vital interests are at stake in the Gulf usually have in mind the U.N. objective of liberating Kuwait. And they correctly conclude that freeing a greedy absolutist Arab regime is not a crusade the United States should undertake...