Word: repellingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first glance, the hard-edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children of the tantrum-prone abstract expressionists have turned out to be a tight-lipped...
...situation in which Europe found itself after the Second World War had a certain ghastly symmetry. In order to repel Hitler, it had been necessary to call in the two monsters from the East and from the West. Russia and America are not states, in the sense that France and Italy are states; they are continents. Their triumphal meeting on the Elbe permanently erased the independence of Europe, which lay exhausted and bewildered between them. At almost the same time, Europe's writ over the southern two thirds of the world expired...
What, for example will be the effect of air on the study habits of the thousands of students who, every month, now challenge the turbid stench? Will it weaken the program of freshman seminars? Will it attract or repel the junior faculty? And, assuming a Federal grant is available to support the purification, will accepting such funds upset the balance of the University...
...Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams, is his first unequivocally symbolic and undeviatingly religious allegory. It will certainly repel devotees of realism. It will equally certainly make Hermione Baddeley the most envied actress on the island of Manhattan, since she has been given another of the playwright's memorable roles for women, Flora Goforth, whom she portrays with blinding blistering brilliance. Playgoers inured to the calculated trivia of Broadway may be infuriated, touched to the quick, or turned stone-deaf at being asked, in all seriousness, to contemplate the state of their souls...
These weapons, moreover, divert vital resources from the buildup of conventional forces to repel any non-nuclear attack on Europe. As Dean Acheson has pointed out, England, France and Germany could gain far greater control over day-by-day alliance strategy simply by contributing a larger share of NATO's conventional forces...