Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to capture the spirit of the marchers. The general attitude transcended that of the painted teenyboppers: celery, crackers and candy bars being passed through the crowd; patient waiting at every corner; ten strangers huddling together under one umbrella. The high spirits of the march did not stem from a lack of seriousness but from the good feeling of representing important ideals...
...tasted the medicine of army discipline. "I bitterly cursed it at the time," he said later on, "but you're grateful for it all." At home, Constantine got more royal treatment, was even allowed to listen when his father talked with the politicians. "I used to sit in the corner," he remembers. "During the time the visitor was there, I was not allowed to say a word. When he left, my father would explain to me what they had been saying...
JUST AROUND THE CORNER: A HIGHLY SELECTIVE HISTORY OF THE THIRTIES by Robert Bendiner. 268 pages. Harper...
...went ahead, 3-2, on two shots that made their way through a porous Harvard defense, but soon relinquished the lead. After Marty Cain flattened an unidentified Brown attackman, Kilkowski scooped up the loose ball, ran the length of the field, and bounced the ball into the right-hand corner...
...experience justifies grouping them togeher. But the next major group of paintings by Louis, the "unfurleds," drastically departs from the "veils" and "florals." The "unfurleds" are huge horizontally-oriented white canvases with several multicolored, parallel rivulets of paints--interspersed with bare, white canvas - cutting across thye bottom corners. The parallel strands of color in each corner act like a pair of springs, compressing the large white field above and giving it astonishing luminosity and depth. The optical oscillation of space in the earlier paintings is muted, and the language finds a more selfconscious, intellectual expression...