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...SEEDS of the dynasty's artistic disintegration had been sown at the very beginning of the century. From the first, as Professor Welch comments, seventeenth century Persian art relied more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right...
...parallel between an ordinary twentieth-century man's astonishment in the face of mysteries like lasars. He is gently satirizing an America foolish enough to long for the good old days of the last century--the very times in which the seeds of its own most pressing problems were sown. And at the same time as Jim Rippe, an artisan in an age dominated by machines, waxes a trifle sentimental about the early nineteenth century, he makes fun of his own nostalgia by leavening his antiquarianism with cheerfully anachronistie Day-Glo colors and plastic. The final irony is that every...
...Perry Mason show been castrated? The quality of television declines every year. The "vast wasteland" former FCC chairman Newton Minow described in 1961 has by now been sown with salt. In 1962, The Defenders aired a show dealing with abortion. The advertisers complained, but public letters to CBS were overwhelmingly in favor of the show's sensitive consideration of the problem. Eleven years later, all the dramatic series of the early 60s are gone, and the controversy is over a stupid show called Maude...
...year. Even if the farmers do hit the Government target on acreage, it is doubtful that they will get a big enough crop to fulfill Administration estimates. Seeds put in the ground late tend to give thinner yields, and about 30% of the corn this year will have been sown after the optimum planting period, which ends, depending on the region, between...
...parties are the essence of the Mengers technique, fertile fields to be sown with actors, writers and directors and plowed for possible deals. "On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say that entertaining has contributed 5 to my success. It is harder for someone to screw you if they've had dinner at your house...