Word: contact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during a war (one that it supports and is not losing badly); everyone is forever volunteering for something: rolling bandages, running canteens-feeling helpful, a part of things. Contrary to the narcissistic sects now working the Pop culture, plumping egos like pillows, the individual spirit flourishes best in useful contact with others. And the collective spirit cannot thrive when individuals are all arcing around in their small green capsules of self-regard...
Although Evans disliked the role of the almighty teacher and prophet, he understood the young artist's need for contact with an accomplished artist; he hoped their interaction with him might eventually lead them to some kind of independent vision. His influence on Alston Purvis (a former student of his at Yale) John Szarkowski and William Christenberry is obvious. There exists a common interest toward the inanimate, the objects and architecture of our environment. Purvis' color photographs mostly detail windows and doorways and explore the play of light in them. He exhibits the same fascination Evans does for the seemingly...
Carlin clearly believes his contact with Columbia's students and bohemians during the smoldering '50s shaped both his humor and intellect. "There were all kinds of ruffian elements in our neighborhood, and then we had the college kids, intellectuals...'faggots'. I can't believe that whole spirit of erudition just passed through our existence. I'm sure it was a force on our lives--it can be measured some day when we have the right instrument...
Toth, whose knowledge of Russian is limited, had several times used Shcharansky to contact Jewish refuseniks?many of whom have been barred from emigration because they are scientists. Shcharansky, whose English is excellent, acted as an unofficial public relations man for his fellow Jewish activists, as well as for members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, which he had helped found...
...next appeared in a very different work, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, which has almost no steps at all. It is a brief, seductive work about two dancers practicing in front of a "mirror" (actually the proscenium) and gradually making enigmatic erotic contact with each other. Baryshnikov's first original Balanchine works are Stars and Stripes and Rubies, both of which happen to call for speed, wit and fiendish virtuosity...