Word: phantasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period is stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare...
...knowledge and in which the highest reaches of scholarship are developed within and between each of the many fields of learning, then Princeton hardly qualifies. Lacking a Law School, a Medical School, a Business School or schools of Education, Drama or Divinity, Princeton University, as such, is a phantasm...
...Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting-a serious effort to cull the best 150 U.S. pictures of the year. If the Whitney is right, it was a great year for introspective tube-squeezing and brush-squiggling. Typical example of the nonobjective work that dominated the show: William Baziotes' Phantasm, with weird blues, greens and mauves melting across the canvas like sherbet on warm linoleum...