Word: phantasm
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...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...
...Resurrection was "the greatest psychic event in all history." The appearance of Christ to his disciples after the Crucifixion was either a phantasm-a mental projection of the personality-or an actual psychic materialization, since Thomas was invited to thrust his fingers into the wounds...
...shows". No doubt he reaches a true appreciation of some Harvard men, or even of a certain class of them; but he is not justified upon such evidence in proceeding to a wholesale indictment, or in leaving the impression that his charge applies to that abstract, composite, and illusive phantasm--the Harvard...
...grip in which high schools and colleges have been held by the phantasm of athletic supremacy for the last forty or fifty years is significant of little more than the extremes to which new ideas can be driven. Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for the greater glory of Alma Mater. When the value of organized athletics was recognized, however, and the advantages of the element of extramural competition became apparent, the grotesque shapes to which the theory of mons sana in il pore sano was twisted by short sighted enthusiasts seemed to indicate on unreasoning...
...face that he hitherto had seen but indistinctly was growing terribly clear to him. Line by line it assumed form and proportion. He looked and saw an awful phantasm - HIMSELF...