Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fried finds the basis of modern art in the changed relationship between artists and society: "the alienation of the artist from the general preoccupations of the culture in which he is embedded." A consciousness of art history conspires to make the modern artist highly self-critical, content with a particular solution only if it raises further problems and promises consequent evolution. Thus Fried says that intense personal revolutions occur in the artist's production of different series of works. His description follows the traditional, romantic conception of the artist's struggle to create, which seems only partially true in today...
...editors have concerned their spoof on Time's style and content, and hope, according to Richard A. Spencer '66, president of the Lampoon, that "this issue does much to reform Time...
Where, then, lies the hope for democracy? At least in part, it lies in economics. Developing nations often argue that what really matters to them is not democracy but modernization. Yet democracy has a strong economic content; it remains, despite Western moves toward collectivism in recent decades, a competitive society. The Communists claim that only some form of economic regimentation can help backward nations close the gap of centuries. The claim is almost demonstrably false, as is suggested by the Russians' own recent experiments with freer enterprise. Says Sociology Professor Edward Shils of Chicago University and Cambridge: "I have...
...Vermont, Ma Calloway (Vera Miles) yearns for "a house with real snap-on lights." Pa (Brian Keith) and Son Bucky (Brandon deWilde) seem content with a cabin in the pines, where their pet bear can hibernate under the floor boards. The menfolk only want to raise $1,100 to buy a private lake where the geese can set down en route north or south, as the case may be. But a halfway house for geese is not a simple matter, not by a long shot...
Contrary to the implication of your news story, the Harvard Young Republicans Club's Vietnam policy report was not "thrown out" on the basis of content. It was sent back to committee because a number of members of the club thought that it was either not long enough or not sufficiently well documented. In the course of the debate, most of the speakers for recommittal made it clear that they supported the content of the report...