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...Road Past the View, stands to the art of painting as Shaker barns do to architecture-plain, the forms reduced to their simplest and most mysterious denominators, not an ounce of fat left. She works on a level of strenuous responsibility that other American figurative artists never reach, or attain only in brief spurts. This lean resilience is as distinct in O'Keeffe's early landscapes of upstate New York, like Lake George with Crows, as it is in her desert paintings...
...Both were passionate, and both were sources of glory and over-reaching. Passionate action was for the Greek a burst of fire rendering the world; and man's place in it was comprehensible. In battle the warrior might briefly show his back above the element he lived in, and attain the glorious clevation and certainty of divinity...
...very last Cleopatra is wife and soldier. She has by the light of her will somehow articulated the world, at the very moment she no longer desires the world underfoot. Sorrow is unexpungeable but joy is possible. In this play alone it seems that the heroes have succeeded in attaining their vision, and their souls, in uncompromised cloquence. This grief is crowned with consolation. It is a dream only to those who cannot feel the extraordinary conclusive beauty of Charmian's farewell to dead Cleopatra, "Ah, Soldier !" Heroic redemption demanded love to be gentle the violence of war, to give...
...still possible that the South will do things differently, that it will learn from the mistakes of others. Watters raises the question of whether "many of the attainments Southerners long have been encouraged to overestimate their ability to gain are worth the gaining, and even whether the South's majestic ability to fail through history to attain them might not suggest a secret or unconscious knowledge that they weren't really worth going after-such things as ever-growing cities, efficiency, big industry-that there must be something better...
...Faculty, not as a normal and permanent component of the Harvard scene," the report-written by the eight-woman steering committee-states. "The fact that women do not reach the highest positions in the Administration contributes further to the impression that at Harvard women cannot expect to attain rewards commensurate with their abilities and training...