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...right−that the colors and forms employed were sufficient unto themselves, that the artist lived in his picture, that the picture was a work of tensions, and so forth ... It was said that the artist was keeping pace with science; relativity and the time-space continuum were called upon; and for the most ambiguous of statements in paint it was asserted that the artist was reflecting the confusion, the disillusion, of our times. "This sort of rationalization after the fact reached such a point . . . that the correspondent of one European paper was moved to refer to some...
...little novel interpretation of character: even that might distract from the great language, or distort it. There is no clear placement in time, no outside world except blind sky, faint landscapes, ruminant surf, a lyrical brook. The camera, prowling and peering about the cavernous castle, creates a kind of continuum of time and space. Such castles were almost as naked of furniture as the Elizabethan stage; Olivier uses both facts to the film's advantage. Not even the costumes are distracting; they are close to the simplest mind's-eye image: a King & Queen like playing cards; Hamlet...
...continuum of probes and counter-probes which wiseacres call the Student Council's claim to infamy, there emerge at intervals contributions of genuine value representing exceptional thought and thoroughgoing work. Such is the Report of the Special Committee on Class Affairs. Although it will not come up for the Council's official adoption until Monday's scheduled meeting or a possible special session later in the week, the 1948 Nominating Committee has chosen to follow the Report's recommendations in every phase of its proceedings to date. The 30-page content comprises the informed opinion of battle-scarred veterans...
...mild ritual of hazing gives the freshman an immediate place in college life as well as in the continuum of Dartmouth tradition. He must wear his beanie and nametag, move furniture for the upperclassmen, keep off the grass, and attend all rallies. There is nothing rough and tumble about the scheme, but it gives him a great sense of class solidarity as well as something out of the ordinary to think about...
...consistent readers have come to recognize the Morrison touch: a subtle blend of scholarship, sweet reasonableness and hard-punching prose. But Dr. Morrison attributes the rise of the Century to no one man. Editorial conferences, he says, are always "a highly integrated collective mind" engaging in "an informal continuum of conversation...