Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diseases might affect an artist's use of form and color. As your readers have pointed out, the primary objection to any such mechanistic explanation is that, however distorted the individual's perception, subject and rendering ought to tally. Yet this self-correcting effect does not always seem to operate. Tests have shown that a circle, viewed through an astigmatic lens, will be seen and reproduced as an ellipse; further evidence can be found in the practice and comments of various artists known to have been astigmatic or colorblind...
That is quite a story on Edward Stone. From the raves of Wright and the squawks of Saarinen and Johnson, it would seem Ed Stone has broken the international style barrier. More power...
...match the dreamlike quality of the Indonesian civil war. in which battles often seem more like ballets, Indonesia's diplomacy last week went into a hesitation waltz...
...aside like a cocoon, and a new existence emerges. Indeed, Alec's essential gift is not for creating characters, but existences. His people are all somehow like children, playing alone in corners, a life unto themselves. "His is the art of public solitude," says Critic Tynan. "He can seem unobserved...
...history majors, spread over a two year period. Moreover, our tutors, qualified as they undoubtedly are in their own fields, are not expert in problems of philosophy. Some have audited conscientiously Mr. White's course; most have not had the time, and, as a result, do not seem to grasp several of the many subtleties involved in this field...