Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andromeda Strain, Crichton...
These two conditions are handsomely fulfilled by an age in which not only events but their meaning strain human understanding. Merely to live with the omnipotence of science and technology is enough to send man back to the safe harbor of primitive myth. Just as myth was the predecessor of science and religion, so may rumor have been the precursor of myth. Long before man registered his thoughts on the pages of history, he committed his anxieties and his faith to rumor-that welcome channel of information and misinformation that made sense of senselessness...
Mobs of people, traffic, strain on City services-those were some of the objections the group voiced to the Shady Hill plans. But perhaps the underlying cause of discontent was the feeling that 300 units of housing simply wouldn't fit, that a development of this size would ruin what some called the aesthetic and historical character of the neighborhood. As Jones put it, to visualize the size of the project, "you would have to picture two buildings the size of William James Hall surrounded by smaller buildings...
...successful Harvard season. But there can be no doubt that a loss to the Big Green this afternoon, besides criminating the Crimson from realistic contention for the Ivy crown, would be a disastrous psychological blow for a squad that had been picked to defend its title without excessive strain...
Joseph Cornell, in a rejection of the big, the bold, the conventionally beautiful, cultivated a secret garden of everyday artifacts. The melancholy strain resurfaces in George Segal's Gas Station and Andy Warhol's photomontage of an electric chair. Even in a painting like Barnett Newman's Anna's Light, for all the persuasive warmth in which it wraps the spectator, nothing can alter the fact that there is only emptiness on Newman's horizon...