Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sisson does not really want to be released. He cannot face his own sexuality. He makes "sanitary wares"; the messiness, disorder, and illogic of deeply felt emotion are profoundly threatening to him. And so, the force personified in the secretary releases him but also destroys...
...radical conditions prevail at Le Figaro, France's leading conservative newspaper. Its 250 reporters, columnists and sub-editors have long enjoyed these prerogatives under a special agreement with the paper's owners. But now, management wants to reassert its right to manage. To show just how they felt about that idea, Figaro's staff last week staged a one-day strike...
...ancien régime felt a special kinship with the stylized artifice of Chinese design. Chinese porcelain was admired for its curvilinear grace, and mantelpieces and niches were filled with delicious Meissen and Chantilly imitations of Chinese styles. One of the most striking objects in the Wickes collection is the great black Chinese chest that London craftsmen lovingly set on legs of gilded wood. When the stateliness of the baroque era gave way to the studied insouciance of the court of Louis XV, chests took on a kind of portly gentility, as witness the gilt-trimmed rococo commode in Wickes...
...charm and grace, and it's romantic -but it can bend any number of ways," he explains. Fortunately, Soprano Beverly Sills (Marguerite), Tenor Michele Molese (Faust), Bass Norman Treigle (Mephistopheles) and Conductor Rudel were on hand to see that it did not bend too much. Some traditionalists felt that it was going too far to deprive Marguerite of her usual departure for heaven in full view of the audience. But Corsaro decided that angels, bells and harps would be too much of a fantasia for the modern viewer. Instead, Marguerite gains redemption by accepting the last rites from...
Clarence James '72 said "Lectures consist of sitting around and telling stories which may be interesting but most often are unreal." James also felt that such an approach led to a total misrepresentation of facts about the history of black people...