Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unheralded Prophet. Klinger died in 1920, after a career of prolonged and dull success. The paintings from which he earned a handsome living were promptly forgotten, and his strange etchings, too. But with the renewed scholarly interest in 19th century German art, and in the sources of that anonymous stuff called "modernism," it was natural that Klinger should be exhumed. This job, and more, has been done by an elegantly compact show of Klinger graphics assembled by Jan von Adlmann for the Wichita Art Museum, where it opened this month before traveling to Berkeley and Harvard...
Last week the crackle of machine-gun fire and the dull thud of mortars rent the still, dry air along the border. Rival communiqués were, as customary, completely contradictory. According to Damascus, a Jordanian armored unit raked a Syrian observation post with machine-gun fire; in retaliation, Syrian gunners destroyed five Jordanian tanks. According to Amman, an "unidentified force" started the action, and Jordan retaliated by destroying five Syrian tanks, a gun position, and an observation post. In any event, by week's end Syria had broken relations with Jordan, following similar action taken by Libya...
...European ideas as composition and balance. To watch the big V of red beams swinging on its cable from the apex of Are Years What? is to be reminded that truth lies in the nuance, even among elephants and whales. A geometrically balanced structure will come to, look utterly dull unless one is made to see that it is a special case, not normal-a bright moment snatched from a world of inarticulate things and relationships. To do that, an artist's order may well need to demonstrate chaos lurking in back...
...direct, free from emotional slither." Hulme insisted "it is essential to prove that beauty may be in small, dry things." Williams Carlos Williams, whose five-line poem The Red Wheelbarrow is perennially quoted as the purest imagist creation ever, announced: "Anything that the poet can effectively lift from its dull bed by force of the imagination becomes his material. Anything. The commonplace, the tawdry, the sordid all have their poetic uses...
...arrive. Conversely, lateness can be used as a cover-up for shyness. A bashful latecomer may hope that he will not be noticed, slipping into the room quietly, like a guilty Ariel, and hiding himself in the crowd. There are other advantages as well. Since most parties have dull beginnings, the late arriver can spare himself short eternities of throat-clearing ennui. At occasions that involve speeches, he can also avoid yawning stretches of dull and usually empty rhetoric...