Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfortunate, however, that these harbingers of the form divine are often led to sweeping denials of any suggestive power in music, for one must admit that a musical passage can convey general ideas like happiness and sorrow; above all, it can convey mood...
...white, quite often an artist cannot fully express himself with equal facility in both ways. Matisse can because his manipulation of line happens to be effective, whether it be clothed in color or not; Rivera cannot because his color is a part of what he is attempting to convey, and without it his work lacks an important element. Matisse's work is emasculated to begin with, so that when he uses an emasculating medium, not much change is noted; Rivera is more of an earthy artist, and his entrance into lithography, which can turn into an unearthy medium, weakens...
...years he shouldered two man-sized jobs, with ease and distinction. His courtesy was unfailing, his skepticism healthy. The honesty of the man was never more marked than in his day-to-day product. He scorned the trappings of style that sometimes pass for journalistic brilliance. He wrote to convey information, not for effect. For fifty years his big holiday was the Harvard-Yale boat races, and his Globe story would always come in in some such fashion: "Harvard's crew defeated Yale this afternoon on the Thames by three lengths." He wrote his politics the same way. A true...
Words can convey little of such a man. New England mourns a valued journalist, Harvard a devoted son, and we a good neighbor and friend. What remains to all is the touch of a truly great character...