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...Comment, to nationally-distributed efforts such as New University Thought. Their contents have ranged from attempts to influence intraparty politics (Advance), to ideological disquisitions (The Conservative), to high academicism (Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences), to literary works and essays more or less focussed around a religious motif (The Current, Mosaic...
Painter Karl Knaths never uses models, for the elementary reason that a model would only hamper him. "Before I start a painting," he explains, "I have an idea-or a motif-in mind. It could be a piece of a landscape or maybe a still life. From the motif you break into planes to create spaces." In the spaces he paints the objects and figures central to the motif, at the same time building up an architectural structure usually made of heavy black lines. As the painting progresses, he keeps forms and colors in key with each other, changing them...
...wars. The clothes that Arthur Kennedy (a newspaperman with about as much compassion and insight as the Mencken-figure of Inherit the Wind) wears are contemporary with the ships. The music that attacks you stereophonically from every angle is winningly simple-minded: four thousand strings equal desert motif; four thousand strings plus two harps equal sea motif. The beginning, which shows O'Toole meeting his death in a post-war motorcycle accident, is irrelevant to everything else. This of course makes the entire movie, minus about three minutes, an enormous flashback...
Hurt understanding was his leit-motif...
...controversy began two weeks ago, when the Quincy social committee decided mattresses spread around the edge of the dance floor Yale week-end would make an "original motif...