Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interpretation takes the sensory experience of the work of art for granted, and proceeds from there. This cannot be taken for granted, now ... Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art--and, by analogy, our own experience--more, rather than less, real...
...mailings were four-page leaflets describing the magazine's proposed content, listing future articles, and claiming that, "Taken together, the articles in this magazine are an extension of a university education." A free copy of the magazine was offered for the asking...
...feeling is that the magazine sold itself more, it had more intellectual content in the mailing literature than was produced in the magazine," Gould says...
Gauld attributed the lack of success in getting renewals to misrepresentation in the promotional letter. "The type of magazine promoted in the mailing pieces suggested articles that would have deeper education content than what was produced taking the issues as a whole," she said. She added that the Harvard Alumni flavor of the magazine was unappealing to national readers and that "this was a difficult problem to overcome...
...LAWRENCE LEFT a legacy deserving a much more intricate and subtle approach than this. In his exhaustive study, A Prince of Our Disorder, Dr. John E. Mack has brought his psycho-historical skills to all that is known about Lawrence in an effort to set the record straight. Not content with simplistic Freudian digs at Lawrence, Mack has gathered every (but every) shred of evidence he could find--friends' recollections, letters, unpublished commentaries to Lawrence's books and, of course, Lawrence's massive opus which almost no one has read, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." The project took Mack...