Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he thinks "some very good twelve-tone music has been written," he deplores the "sycophants" who insist on it. Some of his other opinions are equally unfashionable: there is no reason, says Harris, why symphonic music should not try to express specific, literal themes. Now that he has finally put St. Francis on paper, he plans to finish a symphony on Walt Whitman and an oratorio on the life of Christ...
...Find the Constant. Though Mondrian admired the impressionists, he had no desire to follow in their steps. Nor did the cubists go far enough. "Instinctively," he wrote, "I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature." He decided that the colors of nature could not be reproduced on canvas, so he gave up "natural color" for "pure color"-the primaries, red, yellow and blue. He also gave up all effort to reproduce natural forms, for these, he said, were at the mercy of the artist's subjective feelings. What Mondrian was looking...
...would come a better basis for admission policy than we now have. There has certainly been a lot of talk about these matters in recent months, but it has been a disappointment to me that the proponents of the "top-one-per-cent" policy have so far failed to express their views publicly. While my prejudices are clear enough I freely admit that no one has any right, in the present state of our thinking, to be dogmatic about what is the best long-run policy for the Harvard College. W. J. Bender...
...Vienna and was already en route by train. In reply to questions, the spokesman said blandly that Molotov had not been expelled from the party, had come home for vacation, and had "never retired" from the atomic energy post. But next day, when the Moscow-Vienna express, an hour late, pulled into the Sudbahnhof, Molotov was not aboard. Back at the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow, the spokesman hastily explained that "personal reasons" had delayed Molotov's departure, but insisted that his assignment remained the same. By week's end Molotov still had not shown up in Vienna...
...Americans may make interesting contacts with students from the under-developed countries, Sigmund said. They may also take advantage of some situations to express the American view...