Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This antagonistic element Malia described as "Leninist," saying that it felt that conditions had been better under Lenin and desired a return to those conditions. Chief among its beliefs, he said, was the idea that the Communist party had been run democratically under Lenin, and that it was no longer...
Balancing Willy and Biff during the first act, the production builds the groundwork of final understanding at the expense of naturalistic melodrama, and hence loses a certain element of blatant dynamism. This preparation, however, results in a shocking comprehension which heightens the power of the second act, and leads the audience--as far as is possible--to a complete grasp of Miller's play. To force the ultimate meaning from Willy Loman's death and still preserve its impact is a feat of dramatic sensitivity and talent. The HDC has done...
...same time project it easily into large dimensions. "My dream," he says "is to make sculpture as big as buildings." Because he does not favor mere ornament or decoration, the relation between his sculpture and architecture is very close. Nivola aims at making his sculpture a functional element of architecture itself; perhaps solving architectural problems, but at any rate growing together with the building. Thus sculpture like the free standing bas-relief of sand "The Hermits" (pictured) can stand alone, serve as a mural, or even act as a building wall...
...ranging from sensuous figure studies to Braque-like still lifes. But after a trip to Japan four years ago, he began working again in the style of his earlier abstractions. Studying Japanese art and Oriental philosophy, he found a strength and "interior realism" that he felt was the missing element in his Paris paintings. The result, as shown last week, is a richer, more serene art, with formal,' soaring movements and pure color that suggest visualized orchestral music...
...seemed to suggest what we were all doing, not only in business, but in love, art, religion, philosophy, politics, in fact all human activities. The Acceptance World was the world in which the essential element-happiness, for example-is drawn, as it were, from an engagement to meet a bill. Sometimes the goods are delivered . . . sometimes...