Word: formless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week there was action. The President reminded the U.S. of both its strengths and weaknesses. The stock market rallied. The missile program exploded with successes. The spur-of-the-moment conference between Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, formless in its inception, turned into a program for free world development. Leadership had begun to reassert itself...
...documentary nature of the narrative. It no less constantly' proclaims the strength of the subject matter-its ability to vibrate and electrify as theater-and the weakness, its inability to widen and deepen as drama. The cause is less the usual documentary one, that truth tends to be formless, than that in Compulsion truth lacks a spacious enough frame of reference...
...self-awakening of the formless self," Shinichi Hisimatsu, visiting professor of Zen Buddhism, said last night in Andover Chapel of the Divinity School...
Everyone has this kind of formless self-consciousness, but few recognize it, because it "absolutely transcends form and limitation...
...convened in Moscow. Zhdanov, dead these nine years, still made his presence felt. His line was upheld by the secretary-general of the Composers' Union, Tikhon Khrennikov. a writer of popular war songs and operas praising broad-backed worker heroes. He set the keynote with an attack on "formless and harmful modernism," roasted Russia's great expatriate, Igor Stravinsky, as an example of a composer who writes for the elite, not the masses...