Word: onwardness
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...provincial, either in time or in space. His wide-ranging traffic with other styles, from "naive" folk art to Periclean and Hellenistic sculpture, was conducted on a level of affable ease. At times too affable, perhaps: witness the series of classical heads he carved in marble from about 1908 onward. They are among the most intelligent pastiches of the antique made in the 20th century. Yet despite the tact with which Nadelman unfolded the contours of these portrait heads, they look molded rather than carved...
Then we lick across the broadness of Nebraska--a monolonous, wide-butted stretch of sod. Smiling, broad curves traced in speed fling us onward, out between trucks that grind the air to a pulp and spit a back on us with 14 gears of churning cunning. Plunging to the depth of America--not East and not West, but vastly in between, we seem perched here forever-about nine hours...
...crime allegedly committed by the CIA could in any way match the supreme crime of feeding its employers with the incredible mass of misinformation which has made a botch of U.S. foreign policy from the Bay of Pigs onward...
Still sniffing, I confidently entered the arena, and no one was the wiser as to my blissful ignorance of horses. Head down, scrupulously scouting the path before me for any deposits I could easily avoid, I ventured onward. First, a tour de stade: those continental expressions go so well with the equine scene...
Svengalis and Status. All American artists, Wolfe argues, are Trilbys. For the past 30 years they have been hypnotized by three powerful critics named Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg. These Svengalis have dictated what shall be painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made only to illustrate their theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because...