Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Influences. Months before the heart attack columnists buzzed that Mamie Eisenhower adamantly opposed a second term; since the attack, the stories added that Major John Eisenhower was opposed as well. Asked a reporter at a recent presidential press conference: "Do any members of your family object to your running again?'' Replied Ike: "No." But did that solve anything? One band of soothsayers was more certain than ever that Ike would run because he was unrestrained by family pressure. But another band believed the "No" was a gentlemanly way of shielding his family...
...canvas. As a straight representation of a scene. Olympia is obvious and commonplace. But as a composition in form and color, it is a masterpiece. With Manet, contemporary artists regained an all but forgotten viewpoint: that a picture can mean more than it represents, that a picture is an object to be judged by itself and not as a reference to something else...
...architectonic spirit relates to Gothic churches and Bach fugues; its cool severity seems a personal reflection of modern engineering. Says U.C.L.A. Art Gallery Director Frederick Wight: Feininger "unlearned the last century's concept of [space as] a three-dimensional void. Instead, he gradually makes a clearing around the object through a series of projections. Feininger's object-with which he begins-grows outward; it grows as a crystal grows, organizing space according to its own nature...
...getting its woman than its man. Agent Lovejoy keeps putting the arm on the counter girl (Terry Moore) instead of on the spy, which leaves Slob with nothing to do, through most of the picture, but make sandwiches. And yet, Actor Marvin, who is easily the most repulsive object that Hollywood has dug up in recent years, is such a skillful performer that when he starts hacking away at a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato on toast, the spectator has all the visceral sensations of watching an MVD interrogator go to work on an enemy of the people. As for most...
...intellectual life, James Joyce's Ulysses* has long been a touchstone-and a sacred object. Anyone admitting dislike or incomprehension of it is almost automatically drummed out of any self-respecting literary regiment. Now, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, one of the best critics on either side of the Atlan tic has reassessed Ulysses. Says Britain's V. S. Pritchett...