Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for the lovely coverage of our Sao Paulo Museum of Art [Jan. 31]. Glad as we are to see international recognition of our efforts toward giving our adopted city a museum worthy of its cultural level, my wife and I and our friends were astonished to read that, unbeknown to us, we have been divorced. Lest I be beseeched by a bevy of suitors who will press for Lina Bo's hand, I would be grateful if TIME were to put it on record that after three decades, my wife and I are still very much married...
...YOUTH," Leon Kirchner suggested in his remarkable introduction of Roger Sessions earlier this year, "has turned to the fountainhead of humanism only to find it constricted by mechanism." He was referring to the problem of the composer's relation to his art in a world transmogrified by mass media, as well as the acompanying problem of increasing audience estrangement from the innovative efforts of contemporary composers. The audiences increase in size yet deteriorate in understanding, incessantly lamenting the contemporary composer's august disregard for their prejudices...
Music is the sensitized constancy of the world's noises. The most difficult problem of any art is to progress without replacing one set of arbitrary conventions with another set. The avant-garde, in attempting to solve this problem, is generating fresh breezes across the face of music. And when their successes and failures are recognized, young people will no longer approach classical music through Beatle allusions and electric disembowelments; they will come to music as the most sensitive come to a film by Godard or Bunuel, because they must, because they wish to speak...
OVERALL -- Freshman Class Committee; Harvard Art Review; Barnard Hall Work Chairman; President, Barnard Hall; RGA and RUS South House Representative; President, South House; Major: Economics...
...time, and a fearless honesty of both subject matter and technique that separates him from his contemporaries in film. His latest effort, Shame, and the earlier Seventh Seal very possibly could render him, along with Gunter Grass among novelists and John Berryman among poets, one of the eminences of art of this century. His new film concerns itself with difficulties of a young couple living on an island who suffer through war, invasion, and the proliferating horrors of their plight. It is the most powerful movie, with the possible exception of Freaks, that I have ever seen...