Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXPRESSIONISM, the theory which holds that nature must be remodeled to reflect the artist's own inner vision, has often proved more trap than triumph. But for a favored few it has provided the channel to a new freedom in 20th century art, a fact strikingly demonstrated by the two hit shows of the current Paris season: a two-month-long retrospective of the late Russian-born Chaim Soutine, and the current full-scale retrospective for doughty, 80-year-old Maurice de Vlaminck...
...parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...
Byron Spoke English. Victor Hugo in the Channel Islands is one of the rarest interludes of literary history. By day the master poured out broadsheets of superb invective, streams of immortal poetry, completed his titanic Les Miserables, as well as other novels. By night he seduced the flower of Guernsey's chambermaids and, in table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent...
...reiterating the need for maintaining the West's defenses. The most urgent new problem was how to keep the underdeveloped countries out of the Communists' hands. Then. he. too, launched into negatives. The U.S. did not think NATO should be converted into an economic body, either to channel aid or to plan it. If NATO tried to develop economic programs to help, it might be misrepresented as a revival of Western colonialism in economic form. Dulles favors expanding NATO's political instead of its economic role. He would set up a sort of super-Atlantic political standing...
...meeting halls for five days of reports and speeches that showed a momentous 90° turn to the right. It is a turn from a narrow course, oriented on Freudian psychoanalysis (TIME, April 23), which had been followed for more than a quarter of a century, to a broader channel made by the confluence of a score of scientific disciplines and at least six major psychiatric research flows. It is a change that in a sense demotes psychoanalysis from the main current to only one of several main currents in the study and treatment of the human mind...