Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Why are people concerned about the permanency of material things," asks Conner, "when they themselves may not be here tomorrow" His entire output illustrates the question, picturing death in life, the swift passage of beauty as an integral part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like...
Enter Hamlet, handcuffed, in a wheeled coffin. He looks scornfully at King Claudius and Queen Gertrude sleeping in a bed near by, yanks the blankets from them, climbs out of the coffin. "O! that this too too solid flesh would melt," he moans. Thus begins the strange version of Hamlet...
One way that the Roman Catholic Church has traditionally tried to prevent the spread of error and heresy is by the use of the imprimatur. According to canon law, any book by a Catholic layman or cleric dealing with faith or morals must be cleared by a diocesan censor and...
Charles de Gaulle imperiously describes it as "a lien weighing heavily on our national patrimony." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson calls it "industrial helotry." West Germany's Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss uses the word Ausverkauf-meaning sellout. The U.S. Government has frowned on it as a...
Columbia University's Richard Morris disputes the view of a good many historians that the American Revolution was merely a colonial struggle for independence. Morris sees the events of 1776-1783 as not only ending England's hegemony but also giving birth to a moral, social and intellectual...