Word: mode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South End, was never really planned. Like the city it serves, "City" grew haphazardly and in quirks through the last years of the 19th century and through the first third of this century. The jumble of buildings, none of them new, each seemingly done in a different architectural mode without concern for the total environment, and all of them connected by a weird system of tunnels, reflects the different plans that different generations have proposed to fulfill the hospital's prime purpose: the service of the indigent sick...
...Words; it consisted simply of random words lettered on pieces of paper that spectators were invited to staple at random onto the walls of a room. The idea, Kaprow explains now, was to create an intentionally sloppy, three-dimensional roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow was also reviving and extending the then quiescent Dadaist tradition. One of his inspirations: the wondrous Merzbau assembled by German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters between 1924 and 1933. It consisted of rooms...
...north of the 20th parallel-where 90% of the North Vietnamese live and where the U.S. has ceased attacking-has taken on a new and freer rhythm. After three years of fairly steady air strikes by U.S. planes, the North Vietnamese, though still basically too cautious to change the mode of life that they have devised to counter the air raids, have accepted the pause as a welcome breather (see following pages...
...courses then would start in earnest with lectures, which could begin to make sense of the reading. The themes that interest the professor could be developed, the categories set up, the mode of apprehension crystallized, comparisons could be made, all with the confidence that a large majority of the students present would be in on the proceedings--the jigsaw puzzle lovingly reassembled before everyone's eyes...
Sontag's arrogance towards photography as a non-systematic, non-verbal mode of communication is uncalled for. Hers is, however, the world of words, and if she seems overly elitist at times, perhaps it is because she is such a master of her world. On Photography is elegantly written, thought-provoking, the kind of book that makes you impulsively write in its margins, and undoubtedly one of the most significant pieces of photographic criticism yet written...