Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong, as the story he appears in proves. Bowen consistently found language for feelings that might otherwise have simply seemed preposterous. She worked artfully to make her work appear unlabored. An apt, if unintended, description of her achievement appears in Ivy Gripped the Steps, one of her finest stories. A young boy visits a seaside resort and marvels at the glittering life he sees...
Given a sympathetic new President with a keen interest in the subject, this impressive chorus of discontent will probably inspire the appointment of study commissions and the production of all kinds of reports, analyses and perhaps even proposals for change. But what action is apt to occur? Is any important rearrangement of the powers of federal and state governments likely? The prevailing suspicion is voiced by Michigan's Republican Lieutenant Governor James Brickley: not confident that anything substantial can be done...
...American Clock. If ever there was an apt laureate for the Great Depression, the role belongs to Arthur Miller. Here he dissects that national trauma by relating it, directly and most movingly, to his personal family history. Miller's sister, Joan Copeland, an actress of uncommon integrity, played the mother and gave the evening a transfusion of emotional vibrancy...
...Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with the remedy and apt to mistake its signs for battering. That possibility, as well as doctors' skepticism about the value of coin rubbing, has caused many immigrants to avoid needed medical care...
Dada was outburst and outrage. It shook the cultural world, and its repercussions are still being felt. Some mention of contemporary endeavors would have rendered the material in the ICA show more conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...