Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as an individual develops a personality which defines his characteristic approach to the problems of living, artists develop a manner of handling visual problems which characterizes all their work. Many artists commit themselves to presenting solution to problems of representation with a specific style. It seems particularly true, in the twentieth century's rapidly shifting waves of fashion, that many of these artists capsize and sink...
...commit themselves to the exploration and expression of specific problems which intrigue them, rather than to a manner of presenting solutions. Throughout their careers, they approach these problems from many points of view and in very individual ways. These artists are often as inventive at creating new ways to formulate questions as they are at finding the answers. Their individual works can never be more to them than an incomplete exploration of the subject. Yet the very fact that the pieces tend to provoke questions rather than provide answers lends greater intrinsic interest to them...
...doctrines now being questioned are embed ded in Western man's heritage and, in the manner in which they help interpret sin and guilt, goodness and redemption, they have be come part of his psychic life. They have meaning, often unconscious, for a great majority of humanity - and profound relevance even in 20th century life...
...Manner Born. It was a typical St. Louis victory: "Lucky, awfully lucky," in the words of Cards Owner Charles ("Stormy") Bidwill Jr. All the Cardinals' wins this year have been cliffhangers. The team has had to come from behind so often (in combined first-half scores, the Cards trail all opponents 68-80) that St. Louisans have taken to calling them the "Cardiac Cards." One fellow professes never to lose faith. "What would you expect with a name like mine?" asks Charley Winner...
Winner, 41, is in his first year as St. Louis' head coach, but he was to the manner born - so to speak - since he is the son-in-law of Weeb Ewbank, coach of the American Football League's New York Jets. Weeb is an accomplished coiner of aphorisms, which Charley is fond of quoting. His favorite: "Statistics are for losers...