Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admire? Not always. Can we remain unmoved? Scarcely ever." The 19th century critic Eugène Fromentin's remark is still true of most reactions to Sir Peter Paul Rubens, the unrivaled master of 17th century Baroque painting. The austerities of modern art have taught us to feel queasy in the presence of his immense worldliness, Shakespearean erudition and, above all, his imagery: those nudes, pink bombé-fronted wardrobes of flesh; those heroes and captains and kings, displaying their vigor and assurance like baroque cock-birds of paradise; the fluster of rich fabrics and cloud, the lions...
...throw a string-quartet program like this at an average audience," said Violinist Matthew Raimondi last week. That remark out of the way, Raimondi and the other members of the Composers String Quartet went out onto a stage at Columbia University and performed the three best and most difficult string quartets written since the time of Bela Bartok. They are by Composer Elliott Carter, and the trio of works have a collective age of 44 years. Yet no group had ever played all or even two of them at one sitting; scheduling even one is a calculated risk. The recital...
...article on David Matthews, the Director of Sports Information, which appeared in the Dump Truck issue of January 15, 1975, included several remarks demonstrating an ignorant and damaging attitude toward Radcliffe sports. While trying to describe the difficulty Matthews has in trying to get Boston sportswriters to cover Harvard-Radcliffe sports events, the reporter included a parenthetical remark: (Who cares, after all, about some fencing match or a Radcliffe field hockey game?) Athletes at Harvard-Radcliffe who compete on an inter-collegiate level have all made a committment of time and energy to their sport. It is not easy...
Compare that with Edmund Burke's celebrated 18th century address to the electors of Bristol, in which he promised the voters not obedience to their desires but the free exercise of his judgment. Burke's elevated remark won an enduring place in political history-but he soon fell out of favor with his Bristol electors. America's founding fathers decreed that Congressmen should face re-election every two years to give them "immediate dependency" on the electorate. A public that scorns Congress as a whole usually likes its own Congressman, particularly if he has made...
...Angeles printmaking firm of Gemini G.E.L., had developed into one of the few major graphic artists in Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift assemblies of images, and his rest less improvisation tested the limits of defining a print. The latest result includes some of the most remark able graphic images made by a liv ing artist: Rausehenberg's Hoar frost suite, including Mule (see color page...