Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critic Eric Bentley once nominated him for a Nobel Prize. Theatre Arts printed his Pantagleize last summer, with an awed introduction by young Playwright Jack Richardson. As is necessary for any great name about to be "discovered," he has his complement of American professor-knights, who, while constantly deploring a world that has taken insufficient notice of their writer-king, are always ready to skewer anyone else who dares to mention the hallowed name...
Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
...complement to the exhibition the Chrysler Museum has several pieces of sculpture on display, including one of four existing young ballet dancers by Degas and a variety of pieces by Rodin. For devotees of assemblage, Kearney's "Chicken Age" will rattle up and down and around at the press of a button. The message of Province town this summer is that in the still shifting sands of artistic fortune the critic is all too prone to narrowness of vision in judging his contemporaries. But the Chrysler exhibit also presents a historical perspective which the critic can survey and begin...
This radiation problem has a regrettable complement at Harvard, for the General Education hope that a citizen might have some comprehension of the problems of science and scientists is balked here. The sciences thwart General Education, which is pointless if it cannot teach the three areas of knowledge on a roughly equal level. Scientists in the University rarely agree to give Gen Ed courses, and the notable exceptions, men like Kemble, Cohen, Nash, Holton, and LeCorbeillier are left to keep on teaching the courses year in and year...
...workships, one on printing and production, the other on type and layout, complement the lectures, field trips and special project assignments. In the final week of the course, students work in teams to produce their own magazine