Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Klitgaard sums up Harvard's changing role: "In the '60s, the idea was that we had the magic and they had the needs. In the '80s, it's much more of a two-way street." He adds that now, whenever he goes abroad. "I always come back to this country with new materials...
Climbers have seen the pattern again and again: three years of stupefying ascents, of moving confidently upward along cracks so subtle and fine that normal fingers cannot even feel them, and then the prodigy loses his magic, backs off, gets serious about a love affair, goes to graduate school, finds a reason to avoid those nearly supernatural 5.13 pitches (rock climbs are graded in difficulty from 5.1 upward, and until the present generation came along, 5.10 was considered the unreachable ultimate...
...York art world of the late '50s. In neither hedonism nor irony nor self-expression, he wanted to go back and start from Gustave Courbet, painting the naked body in a spirit of detached, colloquial reportage, as though all the proscriptions against figure painting had lost their magic. To suppose this was not a radical act, one would need to know very little about the pressures of ideology and convention in the New York art world of the time. Realist figurative painting was as unpopular then as abstract...
Even such tired schticks as the magic fingers bed gone haywire, the supermacho highway patrolman sniveling over a small animal, and the kids catching mom and dad making whoopie, bring a laugh because Chase and Beverly D'Angelo (Mrs. Cariswold) do not try to overplay the scenes...
...sequence of clear notes struck on the retina. To a greater degree than in Western art, each color comes equipped with its own symbolic associations, which remain more or less constant through its use in architecture, print, neon, fabric design, packaging, food or painting. Red, for instance, pertains to magic and sorcery, vitality, fire and the conquest of evil spirits. Japanese color is grounded in nature: every indigo or cobalt dye runs, as it were, back to the sea. But the circuit between nature and abstraction is far shorter than in the West. Color has the peremptory quality of calligraphy...