Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both men are captured by the Germans; both are sent to work for the same decent, kindly German farmer. Suddenly their motives are sorted by a crisis, as light is sorted by a prism, and each is shown in his true colors. The journalist, determined to escape at all costs, does not scruple to seduce the farmer's pretty teen-age daughter (Cordula Trantow), involve her in his getaway, and then leave her behind to face the anger of the authorities. He justifies his crime as an act of war. But the baker, who never wanted the war, refuses...
...this clash between public duty and private conscience, Playwright Bolt has made a drama that relies on precision of language rather than eloquence, the prism of thought rather than the blade of action. Strangely and wondrously, for a Broadway stage, it is the mind that dances in Seasons; faith is the inner core, but intelligence is the outward proof of the hero's virtue. That a play so chaste in its lucidity should ultimately fill a playgoer's eyes with tears is partly a debt British Playwright Bolt owes to British Actor Paul Scofield...
...Became a Bore. Today, says Jones, "a new specter stalks architecture, the monotony of endless glass façades." Among the old masters, Le Corbusier has turned from the '"pure prism" of his youth to an architecture that is pure sculpture. Other architects, each in his own way, are searching for riches the purists would have found intolerable. "Our architecture," said the late Eero Saarinen, "is too humble. It should be prouder, much richer and larger than we see it today...
...knew hot to soothe her volatile husband better than anyone. Things began to go a bit better for Corbu from then on. The next year, on a broad green site in Poissy, he built a residence called Villa Savoye. Like his other buildings, it was basically a "pure prism" raised on stilts (pilotis), banded horizontally with long ribbon windows and topped with a roof garden. But its geometry was pure liquid, with every room and level flowing into the next as if the walls and floors could be dissovled at will, until the villa itself has become an "architectural promenade...
...five or six years since Hultberg began getting attention and placing work in important collections and museums, his painting has changed only slowly. His colors-bottle greens, cobalt blues, neon reds-still flash out from this recess or that like glints on a prism. But color now interests Hultberg less than composition, and in composition he is moving more and more toward humanistic painting. "I want to put the human being in a setting," he says, "in a landscape, but equal to the landscape." Hultberg is his own frankest critic. He finds that his paintings are of a world more...