Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mask and opulent villas. He was, it seemed, the existentialist answer to Mediterranean man. And as such he appeared to be one of the very few sculptors who, in the 20th century, had discovered a fresh convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay stretched toward infinity. The idea that Giacometti's achievement was to have found a new stylization of the body has stuck to him in death, though it repelled him in life. "It is a monstrous misunderstanding!" he once exclaimed. "All the critics, all the writers spoke about the metaphysical...
...abstraction. The painting becomes an exemplary one in Giacometti's work because its real subject is the artist's lifelong obsession as a sculptor: the enormous difficulty of seeing anything clearly at all and the near impossibility of truthfully remaking what is seen into a lump of clay or a scribble on paper. Giacometti saw his own efforts as condemned to frustration. "There is no hope of achieving what I want, of expressing my vision of reality. I go on painting and sculpting because I am curious to know why I fail...
...future in the East. In beating Navy, Harvard defeated a Middie team that trounced Dartmouth earlier this year, 8-1. The win shows that the team has unusual depth and strong players down the line. Also, it was the first time this year that the Crimson played on a clay court, having played previously only on hardcourt surfaces...
...Yntema picked up an 11th here and should improve considerably on that. His overall performance will once again be a key to Harvard's team chances. Clay Evans of UCLA is fastest qualifier; Trembley is the defending titleholder...
...consider the psychological utility, for instance, of the richly nuanced popular theology of Roman Catholicism, beneath whose dogma, he concedes grudgingly, may lurk "all the gods and goddesses of the ancient world."* The basic problem of Miller's book is that he has tossed up as a clay pigeon a monotheism that is an arid and abstract doctrine rather than the complex and mysterious vision that it has been, and still is, for many believers...