Word: formlessness
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...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...
TWICE during his long (86 years) lifetime, Pioneer Impressionist Claude Monet had to face the jeers and catcalls of critics. The first time was when his painting, Impression: Sunrise, appeared at the first impressionist showing in Paris in 1874, and was ridiculed as a formless monstrosity. But as the public slowly came to appreciate the impressionists' atmospheric, sun-drenched works. Monet grew rich, won enthusiastic plaudits from the critics as well as the public. His second rebuff came toward the end. when his studies of the water-lily pond, with its Japanese covered bridge, on his country estate...
...LETTERS OF THOMAS WOLFE, by Elizabeth Nowell. An unconscious autobiography of a sometimes great and nearly always tragic writer. Like Wolfe himself, and like his novels, the letters are one great, formless, undisciplined and tempestuous repository of lust for life, love for the U.S., and passion in personal relationships...
...support Scott, Director Glenn Goldburg has used stage effects and the few minor characters with imaginative skill. Rachel Durand and Liz Keene, as Little Formless Fears, are visually intriguing; Fred Mueller's Withch Doctor is properly awesome. The half dozen shots fired in the play are startling in their loudness, but very effective, and the lighting, displaying Jones but leaving the jungle nearly black, achieves a difficult effect with skill. Lastly, the off-stage tom-tom pounder, Jack Hyman, should be congratulated for his faithful creation of the most memorable effect in the play...
...Berenson. "She lacked genius." The failing of Milan artists, in Berenson's critical view: "Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting. Like an infinite ocean of soap-bubbles, it covered even the most salient figures with a formless iridescence...