Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passion, loneliness, and anxiety. As he noted in his diary, "No more painting of interiors with men reading and women knitting. They must be living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love. I will paint a series of such pictures in which people will have to recognize the holy element and bow their heads as though in church." The Graphic art which paralleled the series of paintings that attempted in a Proustian way to be a single work of art, was perhaps even more successful in fulfilling the artist's wishes...
...going too far to say that the purpose of music is little more than sexual sublimation, but this is certainly an important element in its value to the participant. The recent advent of the popularity of the "Big Beat," Rock and Roll, is only to be commended; both the music and the listeners are becoming more honest. Since the first big rhythm and blues hit, "Sh-Boom, Sh-Boom," in the summer of 1954, popular music has become increasingly interesting...
Eternal Secrets. Listening to a Toscanini performance contained the same element of surprise as looking at the original of a painting after knowing it only in copies and prints. Faded colors suddenly leaped to life; obscured details became plain; disjointed lines and phrases connected up. No contemporary could match his subtlety of nuance-the exquisite tenderness, the sweetness, the purity; nor could anyone equal his passion and force. Somehow, when the score demanded it, he seemed to coax a bigger volume of sound from a given number of instruments; he could also reduce the same number to a greater degree...
Since all the Department's courses are somewhat specialized, May said, the Generals will probably require additional outside reading by most students. Although he realized this might be considered a hardship by this year's junior class, he noted a compensating element in the fact that students will only have to answer questions from two of the areas in Part II, rather than from three, as before...
...torn Algeria. It was sadly anticlimactic. Mollet's intentions are almost identical to his intentions of a year ago: Algeria could have free elections once the rebels had agreed to a ceasefire, but she could not have independence. "This declaration," rasped an angry Arab spokesman, "contains no. new element and offers no opportunity for an eventual peaceful settlement...