Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occur when he adds colored ink to the black and white woodcut. Munakata, it seems, is not in any way as gifted a colorist as he is a draftsman. His heavy, almost garish, coloring emphasizes how far he has turned from the nice distinctions of tone and shade in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese prints. This very simple style, more Western than Oriental, mainly produces naive results; the childish, pseudo-folk art atmosphere of Stones in Water and Hawk Woman is most disturbing. However, the best color print, Nirvana, is so excellent that one is sorely tempted to modify...
...which one tone, or a chord built on that tone, acts as a sort of aural home base) he has the advantage of manipulating the vocabulary of musical relations and tensions with which most of us are familiar since we have grown up in a world dominated by eighteenth and nineteenth-century tonality. Bartok's tonality is not Mozart's but it is tonality nevertheless, and many of Bartok's devices are familiar nineteenth century formulas...
...destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
Ever since the eighteenth century American idealists have proposed that education could remedy any and all human maladies. Confronted with the ignorance of the electorate, Jefferson proposed universal education. Confronted with the racism of Caucasians, the NAACP proposed integrated schools. Confronted with the rise of Sputnik, a chorus of voices is calling for a rougher academic curriculum. Since this faith in education is universal, the great debate of our time is not whether or not the schools can save us from radioactive ruin, but merely which educational policy will turn the trick...
...drives off the non-concentrators; these extremely limited courses are dry and historically incomplete because of a seemingly willful exclusion of major works in favor of secondary material, very often of little interest of merit. Elizabethan literature is now taught in three different courses: porse poetry, and drama; the Eighteenth Century receives as many, while such courses as "English Literature from 1603 to the Restoration, exclusive of Drama" can attract only the most esoteric of concentrators...