Word: formlessness
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From Roger Brown one begs more control. He reverberates with a noise that began a few years ago in San Francisco, full of images, full of lust, but so often formless and incantatory...
Since the Claremont Quartet played three modern works Thursday night, the question naturally arises of how radical each quartet was--traditional? tonal? or dissonant? "formless"? But assigning each work its spot on a spectrum of radicalism is quite irrelevant to experiencing them, because dissonance, tonality and the like have a quite dubious bearing on the actual emotional content of the music. Indeed, the quartets of Billy Jim Layton and Robert Moevs (both Assistant Professors) were more "shocking" than that of Anton Webern. You don't have to consult the dialectic before calling any of them modern...
...coastal jungles of Phu Yen province, the Viet Cong ambushed and wiped out 40 civil guards. A rickety train chugging up from Saigon to Nhatrang was derailed; in the confusion seven government soldiers vanished, either captured by the Viet Cong or deserting to them. Day after day, the war-formless, ferocious, without front lines-grew in intensity...
Kanpu's Whistles. The instruments Li Fu-chun used to shape the formless multitude were the kanpus, or cadres, who carry out Peking's policies at all levels of society. They hustled China's peasant millions into people's communes, complete with mess halls, barracks, and the loss of identity common to military life. Routed from bed at dawn, the peasants lined up for roll call and marched off under red banners to the mist-hung fields. At the sound of the kanpu's whistle, they raced to their tasks of plowing, weeding or reaping...
David Berman's rather bulky portfolio of verse represents no appreciable growth in technique or feeling over his last published collection. Verbal pretension and technical sloppiness clutter passage after passage. Berman's poetry has the appearance of craftsmanship, but the shimmer of alliteration and assonance disguises a formless ooze of lush words...