Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spoil the memorial, as the art mandarins had warned. The three U.S. soldiers, cast in bronze, stand a bit larger than life, carry automatic weapons and wear fatigues, but the pose is not John Wayne-heroic: these American boys are spectral and wary, even slightly bewildered as they gaze southeast toward the wall. While he was planning the figures, Sculptor Frederick Hart spent time watching vets at the memorial. Hart now grants that "no modernist monument of its kind has been as succcessful as that wall. The sculpture and the wall interact beautifully. Everybody won." Nor does Lin, his erstwhile...
...watched him in the cafeteria and remembered what he ate and what he left untouched. She memorized his clothes and fell in love with the way he rolled up his shirt sleeves. Saturday we watched him play, graduate he did not notice her in the stands....But always his gaze passed through her. Until this moment...
...returning the gaze of the community to this core question, public protest invites us to ask why Harvard is acting as both a beneficiary of, and accomplice to, racial oppression. We are forced to examine the tear in our own social fabric, the racial separation of truth and power, which allows such a scandal to go on in the midst of a community dedicated to the ideals of truth and justice. Are we a community which knows the price of everything and the value of nothing...
...generally good, and at times even humorous. Despite their efforts, however, this experiment in music and drama fails to achieve a synthesis; if anything, it takes on enough affectations to raise the hackles of the most indulgent of theatre-goers. Enough said--let us direct out attention and our gaze towards the truly memorable element in the production: the poster for the CIVIL WarS on the back wall...
...imperial impulse that brought Europe to its glory eventually helped bring it to its knees, and the world's richest, most powerful, most industrially sophisticated nation now lies to the west of England, on the far side of an ocean. In 1851 Arnold could stand in his country, gaze across the Channel at France and behold the world's two giants. These days one may behold the world's two giants from the moon or from the Bering Strait. But where, metaphorically, is our Dover Beach today? To Arnold, the divorce of intellect and feeling was the central ailment...