Word: nones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graceful professionalism of the Crimson fencers was more evident than ever before on Saturday. Watching Cetrulo, Winfield, and Keller fence is a truly pleasing experience. They waste little motion in their clean and swift lunges and have none of the bouncing, jerky motions which characterize the less confident and less skilled fencers...
...their own intelligence reports. Before clearing Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, the cops heard that the demonstrators were armed with sharpened spears and at least one shotgun, and that they had strung piano wire from tree to tree at neck height in order to discourage the advancing police. None of these threats materialized, but they must have aggravated the officers' tense mood as they moved to the attack...
...Masterpieces often remain hidden in plain sight," Eliot said last week, "but none more so than the Sistine ceiling, perhaps the greatest painting ever made. It is exposed to view and yet cannot be seen. For one thing, it gleams a long way overhead, 68 feet at its apex, and it is enormous-5,599 square feet. The huge blue vault of air beneath it obscures all but the main figures...
About the nature of the problem the two writers would have had, I think, little quarrel. But about the solution their views are crucially divergent. In Kafka there was simply none available, for the very qualities which render the dreaded state intolerable--its impressive size, structural inefficiency, and grotesque involution--also render it effectively invulnerable. Hasek, on the other hand, saw in these same qualities the faults which invite the wedge: nothing so ludicrous could really expect to survive. Hasek created the figure of Schweyk, the good soldier, whose will to survive encompasses his will to resist, and whose native...
...after all did not represent a general disintegration of quality for more than four or five years. And the organization by subject leads to the inclusion of material which over-represents Brownlow's personal proclivities regardless of objective importance. For example, "The Curse of Melodrama" degenerates into Brownlow's none-too-enlightened theories about hateful genre succeeding at the expense of blessed naturalism...