Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRANCESCO GONZAGA, FOURTH MARQUIS OF MANTUA, by Ferrara's ERCOLE ROBERTI, imprisons a princely child in a formal 15th century portrait without robbing him of boyishness. (The Samuel H. Kress Collection...
...came from England, two from Australia, one from Canada and one from Hong Kong. One was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute before the Bolshevik revolution forced him to flee to France, and eventually to the U.S. As for formal education, some 60% of TIME'S editors hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, and six, a master's. Fifteen of our editors went to Harvard, seven to Princeton and six to Yale. Five went to Columbia University and two each to the University of Chicago...
When is art "primitive"? A gallerygoer might answer, "Half the time." Roughly half the contemporary shows in U.S. galleries seem to prove that the exhibiting artists had no formal training at all. Reason: moderns of many schools conceal all trace of academic tradition in their work, as if it were sissy. Last week Manhattan saw an exhibition of less fortunate primitives-men lacking art training and cut off from the art of the ages. It beat the self-made, big-city primitives hollow...
...nightmare spread of swimming things with animal and human heads. In a highly authoritative book on Haiti out last week (Haiti: the Black Republic; Devin-Adair; $5), Critic Rodman rightly says that Gourgue, like Bigaud, "can be called a primitive only in terms of his origins and lack of formal training. If, as he now tells clients, Gourgue was tormented by demons until he painted them, he has a good and very convincing memory...
...think that law in the United States has suffered some retrogression of recent date ... I do not think that the full meaning and value of law are communicated to society through the law's own formal processes . . . To be effective, the rule of law must be comprehended by society, not as an esoteric concept, but as a working principle comparable to regular elections and the secret ballot; and the plain fact is that it is not so comprehended. This, I think, is an educational deficiency...