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...overcrowded wards of Kansas City General Hospital, the 36 students timidly felt a swollen abdomen, saw a diabetic amputee, and stood in stunned silence around the bed of a patient who died as they were on their way to his room. The school's provost, Dr. E. Grey Dimond, told the students: "It will be Christmas before you find your composure again...
...this is the lesson of Maurice. Salvation can only be won through a personal involvement that cares nothing for the unthinking yellow-grey morality of suburban conformity. And in ways, that is the lesson of all Forster's moral philosophy. In 1939, he wrote an essay called What I Believe, and what he believed in was Personal Relations. He had an individualist's fear of drowning in the teeming masses. So the solution was to be Personal, individual to individual, beyond politics, beyond class, beyond morality. That is what he meant when he wrote...
William Turner's characteristic abstract, impressionistic style comes across more effectively in his blue and grey wash of Solway Moss, Cumberland than in the resulting brown graphic illustration; the precise lines of etching and engraving have precluded the emotion of the dynamic Turner landscape...
...status of mutated reality from repulsion to absurd insight. A nude woman pasted with snapshots of her son sits in the corner, two teenage nudes whose bosoms become the reiteration of targets on deer posters covering the wall, a dwarf couple are dwarfed by their collie and a grey, grainy Christmas tree-we are asked to look without judging but to acknowledge the absurdity of sloping floors and stunted growth...
...first part of his seven-volume work, did Proust begin his remembrances. Soon the past was unfolding in his pages: "And once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me . . . immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater...