Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenneth Clark's closely-argued and intelligent volume on the development of the nude traces both a central strand of art criticism and presents a view of life. Perhaps the book is more interesting in the insights it implies into the nature of man, for attempts to create empathy with a personal reaction to works of art are not always entirely convincing...
...necessity and depth of this "pure form" in the art of the nude is clearly underlined. Perhaps the central theme of the work is an insistence that the nude is one of the most austere problems of design. The bulk of his analysis argues the continuity of this almost abstract design in the nude throughout Western art. He finds echoes of the design of the influencial classical works--Knidian Aphrodite, Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, et al.--repeated and reworked, reasserting themselves after generations or even centuries. The most striking example of this that he gives is a comparison of a nude...
These problems which he delinates seem to be most central to any study of aesthetics or culture, and his often quite modest conclusions, offer food for thought, though not to be taken without careful examination. The work seems sure to become something of a classic. It is richly rewarding and provocative reading which illuminates and makes explicit a part of the world too seldom looked at with the full light of intelligence and that is critical to an understanding of what we are in physical terms, an appreciation which seems very distant from us, and yet Clark's words ring...
...depends on two kinds of factors: (1) the benefits conferred directly upon the individual by stipend, lodgings, freedom from routine or required tasks, and so forth, and (2) the benefits of association with others, including men of widely different interests and activities." The Committee of Four felt that these central principles of the Trinity system should form the core of any similar program at Harvard...
...with another man when he was a child so destroyed his values and trust in the world that he finds it necessary to stab people for entertainment to kill an old woman who had been kind to him in childhood, and in what seems to be the central scene of the film, exposes a sweet and innocent girl whom he loves and who loves him, lying prostrate and expectant, to another man. After this follows a long stream of almost ridiculous anti-climatical incidents of violence and betrayal in a Kafkaesque sort of prison. And in the end, he finds...