Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooding Presence. The results were not beautiful in the simple sense. Few Moore works are, and Moore makes no apologies. "Most people wouldn't say that a bulldog or a bull is beautiful in the sense that they would say a gazelle is beautiful or a deer," he explains. "But a bulldog, or a bull, or a rhinoceros has a terrific force in him, a strength that even if you don't immediately realize it, you come to recognize as beautiful and important. I find a bull much more beautiful than a frisking lamb, or a fleshy beechtree...
...most important, I use the head to give scale to the rest of a figure. If one can give the human meaning of a head without using eyelashes, nostrils and lips, just reduce it to a simplicity-the angle at which it is poised to the neck, say-then by making it small, one can give a monumentality to the rest of the figure that cannot otherwise be given...
...will not convince others that what he believes is true; it will only show them that he is convinced, and indeed this is all he has to do. And beyond this he has to impress people with his own life, with what he is as an individual, what he says, and what he thinks, the way he drinks beer or reads a poem. Those who like him for what he is can always say he would be the same in any event, that Catholicism has made not the slightest difference except to get him up earlier on Sundays. They...
Before examining the truth of the phrase "renascence," one must first note that it is really quite difficult to say that "Harvard," in the sense of Harvard students, is doing or believing or undergoing anything. Each assumption made from this random poll will be challenged by hundreds, and each analysis by a local minister will hold true for only a certain number of his congregants. Still, in some way Harvard men are more uniform than they pretend to be, and in their very refusal to be catalogued one finds a conformism to a Nietzschean standard of merciless analysis and criticism...
...problems raised by religious thinking. In this process aspects of one's former religion are rejected or retained, and aspects of other religions are unabashedly borrowed. Thus, a student who is called a Protestant will admit he is a Protestant but--,and he may well proceed to say that he rejects the doctrines of grace, immortality, and the divinity of Christ. Rather than renascence, we must say that a new birth is taking place, a birth of new and individual religions peculiar to each believing student, and thus an association with one's nominal church in but a three-quarters...