Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...layman, confronted with "abstract" art, is apt to lapse into the language of the Two Black Crows and say: "What causes that?" Probably two things: 1) the development of photography, which reproduces reality much better than 'any painter could; 2) the progress of experimental science...
...drawers are empty now." It would be naive and thoroughly undesirable to expect the Advocate to become a magazine of "social significance," and yet it is completely reasonable to expect some focussing, some more intense realization of implications in a poem of this sort. I think it almost providentially apt that Philip Horton, in a book review in this same issue of the Advocate, criticizes a number of young American poets for their "lack of authentic passion and real thought, the failure either to present the material in its full immediacy or to digest in some degree its significance...
Under paternalistic governments, artists produce the kind of art the government likes. Such art is apt to be expert, professional-at its worst, stereotyped, imitative, monotonous. Under a democracy, artists produce the kind of art they themselves like. Such art is apt to be personal, varied, lacking in precise standards-at its worst, amateurish, purposeless, sometimes egotistically incomprehensible. But at its best, democratic art flowers in endless variety, makes up in flashes of brilliant originality what it lacks in consistent workmanship...
...Harvard's funds comes from tuition fees, so that an enrollment slump due to the draft will have its effect directly. For state-endowed institutions the situation is just as serious, however; for they rely partly on enrollment, but much more on appropriations from the state legislatures, who are apt to be more and more chary of grants for education because of the pressure of defense...
Once Ernie picked out a typical relief town in Nebraska, wrote ten columns about it. Once he did a notable piece about his difficulties with zipper pants. Whenever Ernie takes a vacation, editors are apt to reprint...