Word: purist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist is likely also to be an ethical purist. For what never exists in the laboratory, what Robert Oppenheimer discovered with a great sense of shock in the world outside, is 'sin.' We may understand 'sin' to express the way in which the evil mingles with the good in life, the way in which the noblest efforts of man can somehow become entangled in moral catastrophe. This 'sin' is not to be found under the microscope...
...revised the order of Solomon, one of Handel's most popular oratorios, which up to now was mysteriously un-recorded. Fortunately, he has left in the wonderful choruses which distinguish the work. The soloists are capable and the balance and recording are smooth. If you aren't a purist demanding Solomon complete, you'll probably enjoy this version. (Angel...
Puritan into Purist. A painter friend of Hopper's, Guy Pene du Bois, pinpointed his genius way back in 1931: "Hopper denies none of the Anglo-Saxon attributes which are so strongly planted in his character. He has built an esthetic which expresses them directly. He has turned the Puritan in him into a purist, turned moral rigors into stylistic precisions." Du Bois' prophetic conclusion: "He will make many of the 'great' moderns seem like funny little reciters of fairy tales...
...influences: a sense of spaciousness and orderliness, the complementing of existing structures, the use of bodies of water to provide focal points, resistance to a set style, a fondness for expressive materials. But there is another influence at work: that of Mies van der Rohe, the glass and steel purist whose "Less is More" has become younger architects' gospel...
...Philip C. Johnson of New York, a Mies van der Rohe purist, for a glass-paneled luxury house (owned by TV-man Richard Hodgson) in New Canaan, Conn...