Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gris responded best to objects, whether mask or tool, vessel or furniture, which were artifacts already. He dealt with them as signs rather than as Investigations of reality. Even a painting like Violin and Guitar, whose hot crimsons and acid stripes of green wall paper go far beyond the sober grays and ochres that Gris normally favored, tells us nothing of any significance about the nature of musical instruments; nor can it be said to push the analysis of form as far as Picasso or Braque were taking it at that time. But it is a marvelously controlled arrangement: frozen...
...sudden, sharp swing in the medical profession from near-total repression of sexual information to a "let's let it all hang out, girls" attitude is likely to furnish us with neither sensitivity nor respect. More dangerous, insistance on a particularly female diagnosis for a medical complaint could mask other unrelated medical problems. Or it could drive women from doctors because of their fear of not being taken seriously--which is one of the unfortunate situations the reforms were meant to correct...
Clive dutifully livens his exposition by suggesting the obligatory sinister Victorian flaw. Macaulay, a lifelong bachelor, loved his younger sisters Margaret and Hannah more than a brother should. Working from this clue of psychological incest, Clive submits that Macaulay was a suppressed romantic, smoldering behind a mask of rationality. He even labors to make him a man of our time: asserting the intellectual capabilities and working performance of the black race, and defending the rights of Roman Catholics and Jews...
Behind the tragi-comic white mask, Marceau winks at a spellbound audience, at himself, at the whole of humanity. He is a magical and magnetic artist, in the face of whose genius we can merely laugh, cry and be struck dumb...
...Harvard College admissions officer, and Dean McKinney told us that black students often do not apply to Harvard because they perceive it as a racist institution, committed to protecting "scholars" like Herrnstein and Moynihan while systematically discriminating against black students. That the officials responsible for GSAS admissions choose to mask their own biases by slandering minority applicants leads us to conclude that the perceptions of those black students are correct...