Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border-industries scheme was doomed before it started. Even though the Bantustans are an obvious source of cheap labor, they are so remote from both market and raw materials that most white capitalists want nothing to do with them. In the 18 years since he first propounded the scheme, only 94 small factories employing 20,000 Africans have been erected on the borders...
...Before it was cast, the man who paid for it had certain reservations and designations." Smith preferred to work directly with raw iron and steel, kept his prices high, and if there were no buyers, well, there was always more room in the fields...
While Alexander Calder early became a world figure by giving movement to sculpture with his mobiles, and Jacques Lipchitz developed his own tragic vision in the New World while still using traditional casting techniques, David Smith seemed to gain strength from wrestling directly with the raw materials of the steel age. His own work, Smith insisted, should be viewed both with the eye of a poet and of a workman, and he was proud that he had mastered his craft. A dropout from Ohio University after his freshman year, Smith studied art under John Sloan in New York...
...changes in the background harmony or by interchanging the chords backing up the melody, any subtlety of phrasing that is missed when the melody first appears becomes painfully magnified. Conductor Schmidt was most successful in evading this trap, leaving only the "Alleluia" motifs in the last movement a bit raw. A very strange circumstance about the performance was that the tiredness of chorus and conductor after wading through all that went before resulted in exactly the right amount of energy being channelled into it. Had the Symphony of Psalms been performed first on the program, it is probable that...
Fiedler hurts from the raw places in contemporary life where the minority -Negro, Jew, social dissident or sexual deviate-is abraded by community judgment. In his latest book, which consists of three comic novellas, he laughs as he plays confident conjuring tricks with cards of racial identity...