Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...status quo." Wilson says he thinks that such an attack is levelled at a "straw man"--in fact he believes that only some fraction of human behavior, maybe about 10 per cent, is genetically determined, while all other differences can be culturally explained. He says his views reflect the notion that "God has not entirely abandoned man to the caprice of cultural revolution." As long as we have a biological foundation of human nature, Wilson says, "We can undergo a lot of social changes without losing humanity...
...large closet of an office cluttered with computer print-outs and color travel posters. Freeman is much less orthodox-looking than either Fisher or George McAlister, in leather jacket, boots and jeans. But hetalks much faster than either of them, does not look at you or pause to reflect, and does not shed any tears over the angst of senior year at Harvard College. His pessimism is much more detached. Americans are overeducated, he says, and although Harvard students always have been and will always be above the mean, they are not immune to the gnashings of a choked market...
...Stone is in the gallbladder of a bilious pedant." What I sought during my stay at Harvard was not Veritas (how many of us would recognize that rare commodity even if we did come face to face with it?), but an opportunity to learn a little, teach a little, reflect a little and read, write and converse a lot. I couldn't have chosen a better place, and, for all my cavils about Harvard, I have come to love it in my way and know that once I am back in Washington, I'll miss the old place...especially...
Kupka's oeuvre remains in the suburbs of art. The paintings reflect the currents of the time; they imitate, sometimes innovate, but they lack that certain force of original expression. Kupka is unwilling to take his experiments with line, color or form all the way; he tends to eschew the radical for the pleasing. Perhaps as a result of this tentative quality, he never developed a style of his own. Though his paintings can be grouped into "periods" and arranged in chronological sequence--as has been done at the Guggenheim show, which closed last week--these periods are not stages...
...Honour points out, even Columbus described the Caribbean in phrases taken from Latin poetry describing the mythical Golden Age. It was culturally impossible for him, or his immediate followers, not to do so. The woodcuts and paintings of the time reflect that Arcadian vision, which would duly be modulated into the cult of the Noble Savage. By 1505, only five years after Cabral's discovery of Brazil, the first American Indian had made his way into a European painting: a Tupinamba chief, crowned with feathers, included as one of the Wise Men from the East in a Portuguese nativity...