Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing Marden's paintings have in common with Jenney's, apart from their intelligence, is the way their surfaces invite meditation. Marden is wholly an abstract painter, and the effect of his work hinges on the proportional intensities of blocks of color. He is a minimalist, but without the fierce abolitionism the word suggests...
...startled when "he came in one day and said, 'I think I'm going into the Navy.' It just didn't fit with the partying, the surfing." Michael met his future wife Rachel, 22, a college student living in Norfolk, after he enlisted in 1982. They have been apart most of the time since he went to sea. At the time of his arrest, a 15-lb. cache of classified documents was found near his bunk on the Nimitz. Rachel tearfully told a Virginian-Pilot reporter, "All I want to do is close my front door and not open...
...Apart from the dormitories," says Downes, "the only other meeting place was the Freshman Union. The House dining balls were a very good way to exchange ideas and meet people...
...Lowell House became the norm for those buildings to be judged, then all the rest can crumble and fall apart," said Thomas M. Brown who compared the interior of Crimson Hall--where he is staying--to Walpole prison...
Ward has no manifesto and wisely refuses to use Red as a convenient symbol of the wronged working class. With patience and faith, his hero emerges cold- forged by tragedy, observing that what sets one man apart from another is not brains or money but "what he will risk for love." Ward has taken a similar chance in an age of upwardly mobile fiction. Passion informs every page of this tale without cheapening or glorifying its difficult subjects. They may not build 'em like they used to, but Red Baker is a product that any working fella can damn well...