Word: ortega
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...gown, with a veil sweeping down from a diamond and pearl diadem, the willowy brunette bride marched up the aisle of the Royal Chapel, of El Pardo Palace to face Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Roman Catholic Primate of Spain. Standing beside the Marqués, Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 28, who wore the red-and-cream uniform of the Order of "the Holy Sepulchre, Carmen said in a clear, ringing voice, "Si yo quiero" Following an old Spanish custom, the cardinal presented her with 13 pieces of silver (worth about $450), a gift of the bridegroom. Then...
Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset had started something, it seemed, when he descibed the evolution of painting as a steady march from external reality through the subjective to the "intrasubjective" (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week, twelve U.S. modernists had picked up Ortega's word, opened an "intrasubjective" show in Manhattan...
...Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa" . . . highlights again the significance of Jose Ortega y Gasset's verdict that the world "is suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses; it has been taken over by the commonplace mind" [TIME...
Your Aug. 22 article on José Ortega y Gasset's description of the evolution of art was read with interest. [But] I am afraid you adopt too much of a defeatist attitude in your last sentence: "It looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
Michigan's Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends-TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a Red plot "to destroy the enemy, and we are the enemy. So-called modern...art in our own beloved country contains all the isms of depravity, decadence and destruction...