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...Fatuous. The truth seems to be that there is no way, iconographic, stylistic or other, to tell the sex of an artist by looking at her or his work. Who was more "feminine" in paint handling, Renoir or Sonia Delaunay? In terms of the stereotype, the answer would have to be Renoir. It is easy, once one has seen the name of Joan Snyder affixed to her recent painting Smashed Strokes Hope, 1972, to attribute a feminine sensibility to those glowing, flecked, dispersed blotches and runs of green, gold and crimson. But when this painting is set alongside other recent...
...what avail is all of this. To some avail, I believe. In certain segments of these issues, for instance, the nutrition levels of certain groups, and the health and safety of miners, there has been some change...I don't mean to be optimistic in a fatuous way, but I do see real possibilities for social change. May be I have to believe that for a person like me to go on with what I'm doing, or may be I've seen enough to give credulity to that kind of statement...But I really distrust seers and secular experts...
...what avail is all of this. To some avail, I believe. In certain segments of these issues, for instance, the nutrition levels of certain groups, and the health and safety of miners, there has been some change...I don't mean to be optimistic in a fatuous way, but I do see real possibilities for social change. May be I have to believe that for a person like me to go on with what I'm doing, or may be I've seen enough to give credulity to that kind of statement...But I really distrust seers and secular experts...
...hollow and fatuous do these reports read now. (Gide and Coints later wrote disillusioned accounts of those early visits.) That substantial history (if people remember it) should make any visitor to China today pause before expressing hyperbolic opinions, as does Azinna Nwafor who has returned from an "extraordinary ten-day visit" with the account that he has seen a new creation...
Call for Help. In overturning the conviction, the state court ruled that denial of the youth's request to see his father constituted a violation of his Fifth Amendment right to avoid incriminating himself. Writing for the court, Justice Raymond Sullivan said that it would be "fatuous" to expect an arrested minor to call an attorney. "It is unrealistic," he added, "to attribute no significance to his call for help from the only person to whom he normally looks -a parent or guardian...