Word: gazing
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...Garde, 1915-1932," the Guggenheim Museum's huge show of Russian art before, during and immediately after the 1917 Revolution, is meant to be received with extreme piety. These artists, all dead, now have a world audience they could only have dreamed of fitfully when they were alive. We gaze at their frail icons with reverence -- the replays of French Cubism with sturgeons, Cyrillic letters and Tolstoyan beards playing hide-and-seek among their facets; the posters exhorting us to "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"; the constructions of workers' materials like tin and rope and painted wood...
This image of Matisse as a decorative, hence feminine, hence inferior painter tended to stick. Ironically, it would be supplanted later by the exactly opposite mistake: that Matisse's gaze on his odalisques in the calm of the Nice studio was the quintessence of male sexism, and that his love of pleasurable objects and delectable color, of luxury in general, disqualified him as a real voice of the 20th century because it was not revolutionary...
...Gaze across the policy landscape, and observe a similar dynamic at work on other issues. Take health care. The state of Oregon recently attempted to rank all medical procedures based on their value to the patient and society. The intention was to change the Medicaid rules so that more poor people could be covered, but not for the less worthwhile procedures. Some of the calculations were cold-blooded: no transplants for alcoholics with cirrhosis of the liver; reduced treatment for patients deemed near the end of their life...
...then gaze over in Coach Joe Restic's office at the framed black-and-white portrait of the 1915 game: over 40,000 packed into Harvard Stadium (when it was a full "bowl" rather than the current horse shoe) with the simple inscription across the middle "Harvard 41, Yale 0." Now that's tradition...
...then gaze over in Coach Joe Restic's office at the framed black-and-white portrait of the 1915 game: over 40,000 packed into Harvard Stadium (when it was a full "bowl" rather than the current horse shoe) with the simple inscription across the middle "Harvard 41, Yale 0." Now that's tradition...