Word: subjects
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...wrote and edited large parts of ten other books, ranging in subject from international control of non-ferrous metals to the impact of television on American culture...
However, beneath his first astonishment, the gallery-goer can feel an obscure troubling of dissatisfaction with this work. In an articulate, chummy interview published in the catalogue that accompanies the museum show, Meyerowitz cites the painter Edward Hopper among predecessors who have taken the Cape for a subject. The comparison is instructive: Meyerowitz has, like Hopper, great feeling for the season, weather, time of day in the scene he records, and has a similar ability to make the commonplace seem monumental. Like Hopper, he admirably resists any easy, ironic comment about the lives that inhabit his terrain, but he lacks...
...might say that the essential subject matter of the International Style was the end of history. Its "functionalism," which correctly saw that mass production was destroying handcraft and, with it, ornament, was always colored by this millenarian fantasy. Johnson, whose relationship to Mies van der Rohe is complicated and Oedipal, argues that "Mies believed in the ultimate truth of architecture, especially of his architecture: that it was closer to the truth than anyone else's because it was simpler and could be learned. He felt it could be adapted on and on into the centuries, until architecture bloomed into...
Administrators felt that intense involvement in one subject would benefit students and add flexibility to their programs, Robert E. Keeton, associate dean of the Law School, said yesterday. He added, however, that some subjects adapt more easily than others to the concentrated format...
Concentrating on one subject will benefit those students who have found professors and courses which excite them, William J. Kayatta, a third-year law student, said yesterday...