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Instead of exploring reality by re-creating the illusion of space, Gris created a two-dimensional world, used light only for dramatic highlights, reordered objects to make a striking design and rhythm on the canvas. "Cezanne turns a bottle into a cylinder," Gris wrote, "but I begin with a cylinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE CUBIST'S CUBIST | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Like many of his other plays, this one is a comedy-fantasy with serious underpinning; it is a sort of religio-moral allegory in which people "practice charity the poetic way" by doing "welfare work for the soul" through illusion, collusion and delusion. The idea yields an intriguing story, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Jacaranda Tree | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

After a second short, Flying Padre, fared no better, Stanley persuaded his family to put up $50,000 for a full-length feature called Fear and Desire, a story of four soldiers lost behind enemy lines. Unable to afford expensive fog machines, Director Kubrick at one point produced an illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Martin traces his own distrust for an adviser with too much advice to the growth of guidance counseling in secondary schools. "There is no reason that an 18-year old should not be able to make his own decisions, but his secondary school background may have had such a vast...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Freshman Advising Program May Mean Much -- Or Nothing | 5/23/1956 | See Source »

The absence of history and the absence of passion is visible on the unwrinkled, calm faces of Americans--the simple food, the lack of fresh meat, which is too expensive for every-day fare, the meals taken at odd moments and carelessly served, form the slim and often beautiful bodies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard: A Convent of the New Middle Ages? | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

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