Word: linearities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's exercise should have reassured the Germans. The basic idea of Holdfast is that a relatively small Western force-with good weapons and air support, and with the right tactics-could stop a massive Russian drive east of the Rhine. How? Not by an old-fashioned linear defense based on rivers, mountains, etc. (which would require more divisions than NATO is likely to have for years), but by means of "hedgehogs...
...underworld god at left has a clenched intensity seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...
Some of them were the sort he has been working on for years: textbook-like studies of nerves, bones and blood vessels Others, more recent, turned heads into wire latticework. Done in colored pencil on dark paper, they achieved effects of transparency, roundness and motion in neat, linear arabesques. To Tchelitchew they were not just plays in a clever game but 'work, work, work...
...asked of them. If plain song gets a little boring to an untrained ear, it nevertheless events a truly pious mood, and Paul Tibbetts, Robert Beekwith, and Robert Gartside joined with Conductor Woodworth and the chorus in a polished presentation. From 17th century plain chant to 20th century linear counterpoint, the Glee Club and Choral Society showed what a fine musical organization...