Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beatland (On The Road is the bible of this pagan country) betray the trivial superstructure which American beats have errected upon a set of basic and simple propositions about the society they reject and the values they seek to transcend. In short, the beat generation is a barren subject-matter, and the more one has to say about it, the more one becomes repetitious, boring, and obnoxious...
Expansion is a dirty word. The Administration would rather use such euphemisms as "natural growth," and "normal expansion of facilities," or, more frequently, not discuss the subject at all. Despite attempts to becloud the issue, however, it is quite clear that the College is committed to a policy of substantial expansion...
...though this endless point-counterpoint does not always serve to clarify the "correct" solution, it does make abundantly clear that, if the subject is of any importance, it has certainly not received open discussion commensurate with its complexity or with its implications...
...think it can be said that Cezanne is first and foremost the painter's painter. Whether he deals with a mountain or an apple he concentrates upon the inner architecture of his subject. An analogy with Bach is entirely correct--the partitas and fugues rather than the masses and cantatas. In both cases pure form is the object; in both the most complete spiritual clarity is achieved; in both sentimentality is banished. Emotion is there, but it serves to enrich a work which is as intellectually controlled as art in any form can be. In short, it represents that inspiration...
...episodes wither. The authors of such books are easy to underestimate because they are so difficult to praise. Speaking softly on some quiet theme, they say little that is arresting, even when they are subtly telling all that is important. Russian Novelist Vera Panova is such a writer. Her subject: the day-to-day life of a six-year...