Word: multiform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones' cultish socialism, the spiritual and political were joined. In their terrific surrender, cultists reduce a multiform, contradictory world to cant formulas, and thus they become as dangerous as anyone whose head resounds with certainties...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
Pusey mentioned all the deans who have served during his Administration-he became President in 1953-saying, "Where else could one recruit an equal array of talent to guide the multiform efforts of an institution which has now clearly become one of the great intellectual centers of the world...
...Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey. It has everything except a plot, though Williams claimed a narrative line "in which a little (female) Ford car falls more or less in love with a Mack truck." The Descent of Winter is the most multiform of the experiments, including poetry, narrative, criticism and autobiography. It is dense with the texture of Williams' America. Empty lots of dead grass with cinders gnawing at the borders. Children making mud dams in the gutters. Old women with seamed faces leaning over crooked front gates...