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Where are the dandies these days? Not the mere fops and mannered exhibitionists, but the lovers and arbiters of style for style's sake, the cherishers and curators of what's amusing (as opposed to what's serious)-a predilection that is one of the luxuries of affluent societies. They thrived in Socrates' Athens and at the Roman courts of emperors and Popes. The 18th century shone with them, and the 19th century produced the dandy of all time, Oscar Wilde...
Doubtless he tosses off these cruelties-for-amusement's- sake rather carelessly, never comprehending that they often hurt or depress members of the company for days. While I myself have never minded being panned by the CRIMSON, many actors, and theatregoers, place undue stock in your frivolous insensitivities...
Primary Colorfulness. By blending concrete images with paint for its own sake, Johns was trying to mix water and oil, as far as the art of the last 30 years is concerned. He would superimpose 0, 1,2,3 through 9 in a single image, making unnumerical gibberish of the alphabet of mathematics. Or he would paint an anagram of the basic digits so that none would look the same. He tackled these flat, unsensual forms because, to make them the proper subject of art, he had to endow them with more eye appeal and more meaning than their original...
...same time accused him of being more American than Greek. Then they made the relatively minor but damaging charge that Andreas had let a $60,000 town-planning contract without competitive bids to a friend. While stoutly denying the accusation, Andreas Papandreou last week resigned "for the sake of the Government"-and much the wiser in ways of Greek politics...
Tribble badly wants to transform Wake Forest into a truly academic university, a goal that the fundamentalist preachers who dominate the state convention bitterly oppose. They want the school to train future leaders of the church. "We're not in education for education's sake," protested the Rev. Tom Freeman...