Word: pre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas Jefferson how the country looks from where he reposes. Jefferson is in style more than ever-the man who suspected bigness, distrusted cities, believed passionately in individuality. Jefferson is not readily available for consultation, of course. But if one cannot talk to him, then Dumas Malone, 86, the pre-eminent biographer, can stand...
...surface, European life seems glossier than ever. The roads leading to Rome are crammed with shiny new cars, the pricey restaurants of Paris are crowded with smartly dressed diners, and shops from Stockholm to Seville do a brisk pre-Christmas business in luxury items. But there is a dark underside to this bright picture. Unlike the U.S., the industrial nations of Europe never really recovered from the 1974-75 recession, in part because they avoided rapid-growth policies for fear of aggravating inflation. A consequence, as well as a continuing cause, of the sluggishness is the decline of three basic...
...truly immortal," he explained, "it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child." The tilted, exaggerated perspectives of De Chirico's pre-1920 paintings, their dry meridional light (he could extract more mystery from the harsh hour of noon than most people could find in midnight) and their sense of theatrical expectation, like the hush that precedes the raising of the curtain, gave his work a superbly irrational quality...
...when collectors refused to touch his current work but scrambled for any pre-1920 De Chirico, he began to repeat his own early work. The market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and the real pre-1920 canvases. He took a sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico...
They filed into Memorial Hall on Saturday morning, apprehensiveness etched on their tense, pre-professional faces. Students single-filed sheepishly past the checkers at the double-doors to take the "Great Equalizer"--the Law School Admission Test (LSAT...