Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also occasions when Ashby reaches for cheap ironies. Luke's passionate lovemaking is glibly contrasted to the mechanical bedroom manner of Sally's husband. The vintage rock songs on the sound track, while important to the film's sense of period, are sometimes used to comment upon the action too literally...
...conceptions of man"? In the abstract, it is very hard to criticize the liberal values of the Core Curriculum proposal. Everyone agrees that pre-professionalism is a bad thing, and the ideals of a liberal arts education--the inculcation of moral values, an introduction to the history of culture--sound very noble. Liberal arts humanism seems so superior to pre-professional narrowness that the few course requirements in the Core proposal seem quite reasonable...
...symbolic, it does not tell a story or illustrate music or mood or feeling. It does not even display a thoroughly developed abstract technique. As Cunningham himself has remarked, "dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise and fall of sound (music) or the pitch and cry of words (literary ideas). Its force of feeling lies in the physical image...
What you will see is bodily grace, harmonious proportions and a quintet of hoopsters from Harvard who embody the ideal aims of athletics--recreation, enjoyment and the Classical conception of a sound mind in a sound body...
During the performance, Brown tells funny stories about creating the dance. She speaks in a monotone; she never cracks a smile. The sound of her voice meshes with the pace of the movement, a soothing rhythm of changes. Dry humor is the source of both words and actions...