Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Social Sciences 101, ideology and Value in Social Theory, which will be given for the first time next Spring, will have a format radically different from any other course offered at Harvard; in addition to lecturing, the members of the staff will argue specific issues...
...format is impressive, but slick to the point of slipperiness. The expensive paper and the professional-looking ads look like a page out of Art News. The quality of the prose is high, but the articles are overburdened with a preponderance of art 'philosophizing that is not terribly meaningful. In general, the magazine tends to emphasize the virtuosity of each contributing author rather than the intrinsic importance of the subject itself...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...
Which all goes to show that anyone with fact, gall and intelligence can raid the Big Ones for interviews and contributions; it would seem that the Island's evident weakness--its mimeographed format and tiny circulation--is a hidden asset when it deals with genuinely kind people like Auden. But it takes a lot of wit and perseverence to collect as impressive an issue as this one; Shaw, Plotz a Co. have done it well and quietly. I hope they persist...
...Female Nude with a Shield is the of his most refined classical drawings. In it he devotes an almost scientific attention to perspective and the antique ideas of proportion. Furthermore, the representation of a nude figure is, in itself, a Renaissance rather than a medieval form. But while the format is classical, the figure he renders is far from an idealized human body. The features of the figure are awkward, bordering on the grotesque, and the line he uses to describe the anatomical details is strong and expressive. Both of these qualities earmark the drawing's Gothic spirit...