Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between tours of the building and introductions to editors, students who attend tonight's meeting will learn that although they are entering a competition, they are not really competing at all--at least in the commonly accepted sense. Instead, they will strive to meet CRIMSON standards, and after a certain time those who have done so will be elected to one of the paper's four boards...
...regret on my part. Now, to say that I have been as successful as I hoped I would be in a great many directions . . . would be untrue. On the other hand, I am so constituted that I don't believe ever in giving up. I will continue to strive and struggle to apply what I think are conservative principles to the modern problems that we have so ... we will come to see the benefit of what I call the middle-of-the-road government...
...people from evil and suffering' . . . The double challenge of the mainland remaining unrecovered and our people therein crying out in vain for deliverance aggravates our sense of regret . . . My wife and I dedicate ourselves once more to the supreme task to which we are called and thus strive to be not unworthy of our upbringing...
Gerassi seems to strive for the elemental freedom and simplicity of Matisse. There are instances where he achieves this, but when he fails, I think it is because of a basic weakness in technique or an attempt to be overly primitive and spontaneous. Successful spontaneity is something earned by great genius or worked through to, by great effort. The failure of spontaneity is written in the unevenness of Gerassi's paintings not only from one to the next, but at times within a picture. A telltale sign is the smudges which occur in various places where the artist has tried...
...second way in which complementarity may be used is to bring man to the realization that though he must always strive for order in knowledge, he must concurrently realize that there are limitations on that knowledge imposed by the scope of human reason and experience...