Word: effectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hans Hoffman: "The pictorial life as a pictorial reality results from the aggregate of two-and three-dimensional tensions: a combination of the effect of simultaneous expansion and contraction with that of push and pull...
There is still much digging to be done. But already there stands glowing against the Mediterranean blue a vast forest of marble splendor, slightly decadent in detail by Hellenic standards, and yet overpowering in total effect. The ruins, says Bernard Berenson, "are evocative and romantic to a degree that it would be hard to exaggerate. One wants to look and dream, and dream and look. Leptis is, all considered, one of the most impressive fields of ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...conscious, and the unconscious. The last two are states that we today really understand little better than do the characters in the play; the people in Macbeth are constantly baffled (what other play contains such a large proportion of questions?), and so are we. Much of the fantastic effect of Macbeth is due to the uncanny atmosphere of fear the Bard created--and this is a play about fear much more than about the "vaulting ambition" that our schoolteachers emphasize, even though Macbeth and his wife both attempt to explain their drive by invoking the inadequate word "ambition...
Practically all textbooks, he believes, are time-wasters, and "the lecture is the slowest and least effective mode for the transmission of knowledge." For Wriston, the book is the thing, and he proudly recalls how young Nathan Pusey arrived at Lawrence in the '30s and promptly started 30 sophomores reading Aristotle's Poetics. "The effect was electric. Instead of teaching down to them, Pusey challenged them to reach...
...vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Caedmon), lingers with such lip-smacking satisfaction over Hopkins' sprung rhythms, internal rhymes and clashing dissonances-"lush-kept plush-capped sloe"-that the effect is a little like a gold-threaded, jewel-bedecked gown that dazzles the eye but numbs the senses...