Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second singles Gottlieb was far off his game, bowing to Jon Clark 8-6, 6-0. The Crimson player had considerable difficulty controlling his usually brilliant passing shots, and his game completely fell apart in the final set. At third singles Larry Sears won a very impressive victory over Eli Sam Schoonmaker, 7-5, 6-0. Last year, Schoonmaker defeated Harvard number three man Ham Gravem in two sets...
...Department of Justice, under Attorney General Tom Clark, there was strong sentiment for the indictment of Chambers; two Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court-Felix Frankfurter and Stanley Reed-testified as character witnesses for Defendant Hiss at the first trial. And many of the leading lights of the Washington press corps made no secret of their liking for Hiss (a longstanding news source at the State Department) and their dislike of phlegmatic, pipe-smoking ex-Communist Chambers...
...human form points toward a loss of feeling for the plastics of human beauty. What seems to intrigue us often is a sort of peeping-tom attitude, that seems to offer delight in a sort of pseudo-wickedness, yet is extremely embarrassed by acknowledgement of the physical facts. Clark refreshingly does not share this attitude nor disparage the sensual aspects of the art of the nude. "No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling...
...Clark's insights and suggestions into the philosophy of the nude are the most provocative part of the book to the general reader, the scope of Clark's analysis remains overwhelming, as well as the pleasant mixture of scholarship and iconoclasm in his tone. He writes with a simple eloquence that hides the labor of the file which must lurk in his carefully wrought phrases and comparisons. Perhaps his eloquence has the unhappy effect of making one think that the book communicates more than it does; to "explain" the Greeks, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Renoir, Picasso forces a certain glibness, even what...
...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 true...