Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like French shopgirls, come from a single mold. But where shopgirls are uniformly stocky, black-haired, pertly dark-eyed and, no matter how unpretty, filled with a lively charm, concierges have pulled-back hair, grey skin and grey souls. The typical concierge wears round-frame glasses, black stockings, a shapeless dress and old felt slippers, and, in the profane opinion of most Parisians, is rude, inquisitive, grasping, lazy, and brimming with malign gossip...
...Germans are concerned, MLF cannot really settle the problem of European defense, which is having growing repercussions in German politics. With the departure of one Chancellor and the arrival of another, a whole new political scene is being set. Emerging in Bonn is the as yet shapeless pattern of a new political alignment that may strain the unity of the ruling Christian Democratic party. The opposing factions are known as the Gaullists and the Atlanticists...
...with Gertrude and has endured the "empty" years since her death. While Gertrude wrote and talked, Alice ran the household, typed the manuscripts, cared for the dogs, screened the visitors and tended the vegetable gardens that they planted almost anywhere the two of them lived. She knitted the shapeless woolen garments and heavy woolen stockings Gertrude favored. She seems, in fact, to have disappeared virtually without a trace into Gertrude Stein's life. The reader never learns, for instance, what became of her father (her mother died when she was young) or her younger brother. After her departure from...
...large square canvas called Abstract Painting that seems at first glance to be entirely black. Closer inspection shows that it is subtly divided into seven lesser areas. In a helpful gallery note at one side. Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt explains his painting. It is: "A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork...
...College is now in its fourth year of Freshman Seminars, and the program is evidently more shapeless than ever. If its originators dimly hoped that the experiment would operationally define its own goals, and settle into an integral part of Harvard's undergraduate education, the hope was utterly unfounded. Pluralistic beginnings have spread the seminars well beyond the fragile boundaries once imposed by the fact that they were taught by professors with some sense of the College's more traditional concerns. A huge network of 41 seminars of wildly varying scope now embraces over a quarter of the Freshman class...