Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faith in Christ." After an actress approached him on the set with "What's this 'Jesus died for us' routine?", Dr. Gockel became even more convinced of the need to reach the nation's "unchurched," introduced a TV technique of "new and fresh phraseology" to express old and never-changing truths...
...behalf of the Undergraduate Council of Dartmouth College I should like to express our sincere regrets for the immature actions of some of the Dartmouth student body during the half-time demonstration at the Dartmouth-Harvard game this past weekend. I can only hope that you and the other members of Harvard will consider these actions non-reflective of the entire Dartmouth student body...
...rate of capital formation (i.e., reinvested savings) is easiest to express as a percentage of gross national product. On this basis the U.S. saves 17%, the same as France, and slightly more than Britain's 15%. But West Germany saves 22%, Canada 24%, Peru 21%, Austria 24%, Iceland 31%, Norway 29%, Israel 22%, Japan and Italy 20%, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 34%. On the other hand, Chile saves only 8%, the Philippines 7%, Indonesia 5%, and many other underdeveloped countries even less. A rule of thumb is that any country with a rising population must save...
...What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...
Space & Meaning. At midcentury, American art has reached a sort of delta. The leading painters follow a dozen different channels, and each naturally insists that his particular channel is the main one. Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...