Word: objective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directly into color," Matisse wrote in 1947, "reminds me of a sculptor's carving into stone." Kelly's work, both as painter and as sculptor, now seems like a reverberation of that remark: the colors he uses- red, green, yellow, blue, plus black and white - are more object than atmosphere. Their presence is dense, their shape irrevocable. This, coupled with the extreme deliberation with which he shaves his contours, makes for very responsible painting. The weight of each decision, every nick and turn of shape, comes to resemble a moral choice. And so Kelly comes out of this...
...thus lifeless as well. A British ambassador who begins to sense the sheer outrage of U.S. imperialism when he finds that the embassy cook automatically fries his eggs Yankee style. Fortnum's wife Clara, who is (yes) a graduate of Madame Sanchez's immaculate brothel and the object of Fortnum's genuine and touching concern and chivalry. "When you get to my age," Fortnum explains, "it's not a bad thing to feel you've made at least one person a little happier...
...pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out that literal-minded folk who object to fairy stories as escapist mistake the wartime escape of the deserter (bad) for the wartime escape of the prisoner (necessary and good). Fairy tales represent the latter, Tolkien continued, and correspond to the primordial human desire-in a world of poverty, injustice and death -for the "consolation...
Hall said he did not object to the continuation of rent subsidies as long as someone other than the central Administration was bearing the burden. "If a particular faculty wants to pay part of the rent, that should be their option," he said...
Wheatland's problem is a common one among instrument collectors. Sundials, astrolabes, globes, telescopes, and microscopes are old favorites with antique buyers who admire the shiny brasswork, wax the basswood, and wonder what the gorgeous object was ever used for. While the stiff bidding of these amateur antiquaries has made much of Harvard's collection too valuable to risk exhibiting, their uneducated enthusiasm has depressed its worth in the marketplace of ideas. It is scarcely surprising, with more interior decorators than scientists in the field, that scientific artifacts do not attract any significant number of scrupulous scholars. --From an account...