Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure of the quality of this, the last separate Harvard Yearbook that its most interesting section is the raw data at the back: the seniors and their three-line condensations of four years. Perhaps next year the editors will complement the production techniques they use so well with a conception of the Yearbook's message. If that message is that Harvard life is a chaos, Yearbook 329 ought to say so and document its claim. At least the attempt would make 329 a volume of more than commendable vitality and notable success...
...taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...Dutch art movement, whose standard-bearer was Piet Mondrian, made more than rules for good design. It was a heavily Platonic philosophy of art, carried out in mighty Pythagorean paintings, that saw pure beauty as the universal means of reaching Utopia. Wrote Mondrian: "Abstract art is opposed to the raw primitive animal nature of man, but it is one with true human nature...
Oddly, Mondrian's art paralleled the rather raw expressionism of his countryman, Van Gogh, until he was 37. Then, influenced by cubism, he began simplifying what he saw to horizontal and vertical lines. Flowering apple trees, building fronts, jetties into the sea soon dissolved into what he called "plus-and-minus" rhythms. He wrote that he was searching for a higher "reality detached from the transitory reality of forms...
...most severe measure presented in the report is a demand that state representation in Congress be based on the number of registered voters, rather than on raw population totals...