Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myself, I demand only that a picture or an object be interesting; it need not be beautiful or even have a meaning. Much so-called modern art, however, does not interest me; some of the things currently presented as art seem to me to be atrocities. I resent the contention so commonly made today that it is my duty and that of all other persons to make a continuing effort to understand and appreciate it. As a scientist, I have some esoteric interests of my own, but I do not insist that anyone else share my interests in these things...
...energy. Whatever their school, painters of the past sincerely engaged in creating works of art labored for months, even years, to perfect a single picture. They were like Yeats, who slaved an entire day to get a few lines that satisfied him. The quick pace of modern life has accelerated the painter and wrecked his work. If I draw nice circles and squares, or if you paint pretty stripes set off with excellent polka dots, we have not made art, because, as we have all been saying for years while only half believing it, anybody can do that...
Nationalistic Fires. A 5-ft. 2-in. one time professor of finance, Lleras has proved in less than seven months in office to be one of the scrappiest Presidents in Colombia's modern history. Many of his troubles were inherited from the lackluster government of past President León Guillermo Valencia, but Lleras, unlike his predecessor, is not afraid to take a stand. When Communist-led students went on strike across the country shortly after he took over last August, he threatened to bar them from graduation and, ignoring the country's sacred tradition of campus autonomy...
...Fine Arts Library. Seven years ago, she donated a splendid Frick Fine Arts Museum. As always, she demanded secrecy about the overall cost of the building and its collection, but this time she also demanded control over the building's operation and personnel. At last, her aversion to modern art and her criticism of the staff became too much for Pitt, which sadly severed ties with its great benefactor. Pitt will keep her previous gifts, but she will no longer have a voice at the university. "Academic integrity is the issue," said Vice Chancellor Charles Peake...
...Harvard Dramatic Club's Evening With Pinter and Beckett is a fine survey of the tamer modern entertainments. It begins with Harold Pinter's The Collection, one of the quieter works of a very noisy playwright, and after an hour or so moves to a mime by Samuel Beckett (titled, with cheery deadpan, Act Without Words I). Illuminations, a festival of electronic echoes and throbbing lights reminiscent of the best parts of The Ipcress File, brings down the curtain...