Word: blot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aesthetically appropriate form. Of such able printmakers as Rembrandt, Canaletto, William Blake or Aubrey Beardsley, we cannot say that they shrunk from the beautiful as Oscar Wilde once declared of American artist James McNeil Whistler; "Ah, Whistler! Yes, wonderful of course, but, how he fears beauty! He puts a blot, a mere stain like a petal, a butterfly upon a sheet of paper and dares not touch it, lest its charm be lost. His portraits remind me of the painter in Balzac's Chefd' oeuvre inconnu, laboring his canvas for years and when he draws the curtain to show...
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...crew-cut or otherwise, would have guessed that during the wondrous decade of the '50s, the response to a single ink blot could be used as the standard by which to gain value judgment of this or any other period [Sept. 6]. Furthermore, probably only Psychologist Fred Brown would have discovered that a 51% "female" response indicates a breakdown in sex-role differentiation, whereas a 51% "male" response does...
...York's Mount Sinai Hospital reports that people no longer respond to the well-known Rorschach inkblot test the way they once did. In the Rorschach, patients disclose their emotional conflicts by describing the people, animals and objects they visualize in abstract shapes. One of the ten standard blots has long been helpful in spotting sexual difficulties. In the 1950s, 51% of patients who were shown the blot said that it looked like a male figure. That response was considered normal. As for the 39% who thought the blot resembled a female, they were suspected of homosexual leanings...
Surprising Reversal. Today, on the other hand, only 16% of those tested think the blot looks like a male figure; the percentage who sees it as female has risen to 51%. To Psychologist Brown, who based his conclusions on a careful study of 1,400 patients, the surprising reversal accurately mirrors a culture in which men have become more feminine and women more masculine than they used...