Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humble Form. Given this predilection, it was only natural that Munch should ultimately turn to the simplest, most stylized artistic medium then in use -graphics. In the 1890s, lithographs were undergoing an artistic revival in Paris under the gifted impetus of Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec, while Gauguin was experimenting with the woodcut. Munch, in his turn, became almost as influential as they...
Harvard's two leading rebounders, Chris Gallagher and Ernie Hardy, played much of the first half with three fouls and each got a fourth shortly after the start of the second period. Coach Harrison elected to keep them on the bench for protection and Cornell built up a medium-sized lead...
Creative Excitement. Between the extremes of Auchincloss and Mailer, Afterwords offers a variety of literary experiences. Wright Morris is vague about the moment when something that is most often called inspiration strikes. "In whatever medium that is congenial to his talent," he writes of the artist, "he painlessly cracks through how things were, to how things are." Truman Capote is more succinct, though no more enlightening, when he records that "excitement-a variety of creative coma-overcame...
...each other." Nonsense, replies Barzun--no undergraduate has anything valuable to say to a Ph.D. about his chosen field which he has not heard already. Though many students are bright, he concedes, they are all inarticulate. They have "no responsibility to words or logic." Their writing is garble, their medium is sabotage, their ethos is rudeness, and their morals are those of a pig sty. They expect honesty from adults, but not from themselves. He points to the prevalence of cheating...
...view of your editorial, "Curbing ROTC" which was in the edition of 5 February (". . . yesterday's decision should not be the final episode of the ROTC debate here"), I leap at this chance to supply fuel for the pyre. Specifically, I beseech you to furnish me a medium to express my THANKS...