Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fogg: Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, is a spectacular demonstration that this stereotype is as false as any other. The paintings, spanning 600 years (1300-1900) show that while many Chinese painters of these ages conceived of their works as being in the idiom of a particular school, or thought of themselves as part of a particular lineage, there were many individuals who not only shaped the development of existing stylistic traditions, but created new genres and forms. The Sackler exhibit reveals our commonly accepted bias--that Individuality is uniquely Western--to be shakily...
...fell to earth land on his head? When the creator of Ziggy Stardust begins to sound like Star Trek soundtracks, you can't help wondering. "Changes" is right: rock 'n rollers have gotten older, and they cannot expect him to retrace old footsteps. But in this redefinition of his idiom, David Bowie has a long way to travel...
...appraises Small Is Beautiful as a book solely about economics may wonder why the book is highly valued in so many different quarters, possessing a following that could almost be called a cult, and including such unlikely fans as Jerry Brown and Dean Rosovsky. The religious idiom Schumacher employs provides a clue to the origin of this deeper appreciation...
Steinbeck has tried to feel the Arthurian apestry, not just to look at it from a distance. The Acts tries to re-weave the fabric of this legend in colorfast and pre-shrunk threads of modern idiom. Casting nostalgia aside, one must admit that any tapestry furnishing the room of a modern mind must be able to go in the wash, to be treated as something useable and abusable, not as a museum piece. Steinbeck has come a long way towards making Arthur wash...
Henry Miller knew how to get along with life, and the genius of his novels is that he also knew how to write in the idiom of getting along with life. That good old euphimism "the facts of life" is a more profound statement about sexual matters than those who generally resort to it would care to admit. Sex really is the single most unavoidable fact of human existence. If the total abandonment of Miller's men and women to the demands of their bodies, to all kinds of fucking and anything they can think of to go with...