Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such provocation is not forthcoming, however, from most of the works. "La Petite Fille Qui Voulet Entrer a Carmel" is a large collection of plates from a novel by Ernst, which, though they contain strange conglomerations of figures pasted together, and remind us of the association between surealist art and literature, are strangely static and uninteresting as they hang, a quality which unfortunately repeats itself throughout the show. This is partially due to the limited nature of the exhibit--that it is mainly pencil and photoengraving on paper and therefore not so powerful or organically real as much work...
...First Symphony just before his 14th birthday and finished it six months later. What impressed the public, critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...
...results of the poll indicated that 80 per cent of the 400 people in the audience did not agree that "Vietnam is a test case for 'Wars of National Liberation,'" 87 per cent denied that "the war helps to contain Chinese influence," and 86 per cent disagreed with the statement that "the war helps prevent the spread of communism into other areas of Asia." Fifty per cent of the audience indicated support for "an immediate U.S. withdrawal" from Vietnam, and 88 per cent voted for "gradual and unilateral U.S. troop withdrawal under the umbrella of negotiations." To the question "does...
This conceptual division is both less obvious and more destructive in the two earlier acts. Perhaps because these acts seem less surely written, and perhaps simply because they contain more event, they do not give the sense of two concrete, if opposed, actions occurring at once. Rather, they appear essentially and wildly confused...
...they had combined with rightist parties, they would have had 52% of the votes; instead, they turned left to the Socialists. Two things held the marriage together: 1) the fact that the Christian Democrats contain virtually the entire spectrum from left to right within their own ranks, and 2) the Christian Democrats' threat to dissolve the coalition and form a center-right government if the Socialists pressed too hard...