Word: singularizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painting like Untitled (Number 2), 1950, now looks like a singular prophecy of the stripe work that dominated New York galleries 15 years later; it predicts Noland all the way, from the long narrow format of canvas to the pure, hard-edged bands of red and black. (Asked if he had begotten stripe paintings, Newman replied with characteristic irony that "if I am the father, I never had the honor of knowing the mother.") But most Abstract Expressionists thought his work perversely formalistic. Its very muteness was an offense...
...wholly within the American experience. The book as it stands is still readily susceptible to willful misreadings such as that of Styron, who saw it as further evidence that Calley was a malevolent, unrepentant destroyer whose evil could be contained only by imprisonment. Calley, the individual, is much less singular than that...
Driving Death Wish. Hubbard believes that the typical skyjacker has two intense wishes: to fly and to flee. Sometimes he takes flying lessons in an unsuccessful effort to become a pilot. Sometimes he is "a wild parachutist." In any case, he has "a singular neurotic preoccupation with space, motion and the force of gravity," and "even dreams of being able to fly, weightlessly, like an angel or an astronaut." With his "driving death wish," he may hope to die by another's hand, fantasying that he will "rise upward to God in an antigravitational fashion...
...naked and singular...
...views were becoming an embarrassment to Rand, so he resigned and accepted a fellowship at M.I.T., aiming to write a book on Viet Nam. He remarried (he has two teen-age children by a previous marriage) and settled down in Cambridge, Mass. But Ellsberg could not keep his singular mind off the war. He had the support of his wife Patricia, a Radcliffe graduate and daughter of Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, a Nixon supporter...