Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above all, a last link to the great age of modernism, and we have to see his death not only as the end of one of painting's most fertile careers, but as the mark of a great wave of art at its ebb. Continual, radical change has become a constant for all the arts, but the leading figures of what now appears as the classical period of modernism are gone: two years ago Stravinsky; after the bitter silence of his last years, Pound; and now Picasso. Not for a long time, and perhaps never again, will any single artist...
...informed and compelled the past few decades is under attack-or, at the very least, under crossexamination. That wisdom has been variously called liberalism, rationalism, scientism: concepts certainly not identical but related. But now man's confidence in his power to control his world is at a low ebb. Technology is seen as a dangerous ally, and progress is suspect. Even the evolutionists share this unease; their hope lies not in man as he is but in some mutant superman...
...Lawrence and Dr. Benjamin Spock, condemning in detail each one of the film's 62 minutes. The film's heroine, he noted, demonstrated a "swordswal-lower's fascinating faculty for fellatio," and camera angles were "directed toward maximum exposure...during the gymnastics, gyrations, bobbing, trundling, surging, ebb and flowing, eddying, moaning, groaning and sighing, all with ebullience and gusto...
...four year ebb in the membership of Harvard's only fraternity reversed itself with a flood of new members last Fall, as sophomores seeking beery fellowship discovered Sigma Alpha Epsilon...
...actual execution, however, the play caves in. In this theater of non-sequitur, a wonderful sense of the bizarre often drives the play: the audience stays poised to see what new strangeness is in store, because anything can happen. In The Chairs, this finds expression in an oceanic ebb and flow of energy. The actors have to set up chairs at a loud and feverish pitch one instant, and subside into deathly silence and inactivity the next. The varying dynamics of the play as it is written are brilliant, but the demands imposed upon the actors are rigorous: they have...