Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are the problems facing President Conant as he returns to fulltime duty. If their solution is to be part of an active liberal tradition, the President must turn to intimate and personal contact with the inner workings of the college. To allow policy to stem from intermediate and lesser sources is to give the lie to the prophecy that the next years will be the years of "Conant's Harvard," much as the College of the beginning of the century was "Eliot's Harvard," and "the Great Harvard." It is not a matter of imposing the will...
...paintings were good enough to make most visitors forget Somerset Maugham's smoothly dramatic Moon and Sixpence-which borrowed many of the circumstances, but few of the inner realities, of Gauguin's life...
...Bartok was no artificer. He stood for all that was original and individual in music, all that was sincere and direct. . . . He wrote not for the public's hunger for sensualism and eclat. He wrote for himself, to satisfy an inner urge which said he must compose...
...Broadway last week, He seemed a good deal less freighted with inner meanings. It seemed, in fact, what it doubtless always was-a piece of theater, of emotional bravura, of florid fiddling. Behind its clown's make-up there was nothing much of a face. Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking. For half the evening, indeed-while its melodrama seemed crouching to spring-He had a jittery tension, a rataplan rhythm, a glare of circus lights and blare of circus music, that were theatrically vivid. Then things got fuzzy and highflown, and the melodrama...
...20th Century, Max Ernst (see col. 3) renounced the pleasures of painting the sunlit world he saw around him. By concentrating on the feathered, taloned, sharp-toothed horrors visible to his inner eye, Ernst became modern art's first surrealist (old masters Bosch, Brueghel, Grünewald, and others had been there be fore him). All Ernst had to do was to close his eyes to see Satan hovering before him in the studio. And Ernst's Satan was easy to recognize: he invariably looked like everything that Ernst feared most...