Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bluestone's central thesis is that the adapter "looks not to the organic novel whose language is inseparable from its theme, but to characters and incidents which somehow have detached themselves from language, and like the heroes of folk legends, have assumed a mythical life of their own." He is a little extreme in saying that a novel cannot be compared on much the same critical level to the film into which it was made, for the rape of a great novel is not particularly excused by the differences in media...
Within, Memorial Center is designed around an open central-courtyard plaza. The main gallery is 120 ft. by 50 ft. Enough lighting fixtures have been built into the ceiling to turn the building into a blazing beacon at night, but Architect Saarinen broke with the modern tendency to seal off gallery space from outside light, left two wide glass areas so that the lake can be kept in view even while looking at pictures...
...Nationalist government's long wartime exile in Chungking teaching and making sketching trips along the wild and misty mountain gorges of the Kialing River. He went to Formosa in 1948 as a member of a good-will mission just before Communists seized control of Nanking's National Central University, where he was teaching, refused to return to the mainland, is now chairman of the art department of Taipei's Provincial Teachers College...
...Vogue. T.T., a sort of Bolshevik Babbitt with a strain of a Good Soldier Schweik of the Class War, is the central figure in a series of events which would seem like fantasy were not each episode matched by a solemn quotation from Soviet pronouncements. By Soviet standards, T.T. is highly fortunate-he has a television set, a Pobeda automobile, a plump stomach and a talented teen-age daughter named Simochka. Yet there comes the dreadful day when it is reported from Simochka's university that she has been overheard making anti-party statements. This is serious business-only...
...posthumously purged by Khrushchev & Co., and the spiral of official truth spins into reverse. Simochka, it appears, was right all along. T.T. is back in the center of his absurd universe, and the bribes fly back from the terrified recipients. Thus Novelist Grinioff extracts ribald comedy from his central theme: under tyrannous government, humanity exists in the corruption of its officials. It is human crookedness that can best the inhuman game...