Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blown surfaces of Northern California and the Southwest as his own, by territorial right of imagery. His pictures include some of the grand cliches of modern American photography, but they are cliches Adams has a prescriptive right to, since he invented them. What Edward Weston did for driftwood and bell peppers Ansel Adams did for mountains, rivers and rocks: recording them with a grave and highly deliberate formal density, he gave their images an extraordinary presence that hovers at the edge of abstraction. In the process he became the last practitioner of a 19th century mode-epic landscape...
...philosophers who populate his "talks." After setting Aristotle in a historical context he inserts him into American experience by likening the philosopher to a "third-rate technical instructor, naming everything, showing the relationships among the things named, cleverly inventing an occasional new relationship... and then waiting for the bell so he can get on to repeat the lecture for the next class...
...exciting A race, Lowell House led the pack for most of the 1500-meter distance before a surge by Kirkland nipped the Bell-House men at the finish for an exciting one-seat...
...Black schools are not inferior simply because they are black," Bell said, citing "inherent, educational advantages in black schools, particularly for poor, ghetto blacks...
...Bell said such advantages include not needing to "consume an inordinate amount of energy assuring and reassuring whites that the presence of blacks in their schools will not lower school quality...