Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure, but vaguely so; the Rothko-like bars of color could indicate someone squatting in the lotus position. Yet it cannot have started from a figure: it is the sensation of calm presence that comes off the blues, in their association with tan and brown edges, that generates the "subject" of the painting. You still feel that Frankenthaler found something she was not looking...
...without her limitations either. Frankenthaler's forte has always been controlling space with color, vigilantly monitoring the exact recession of a blue or the jump of a yellow, the imbricated weight of a dark area against the open glare of unpainted canvas. Color is the chief subject of her pictorial intelligence, her main vehicle of feeling. But every patch of color must have a bounding edge, and Frankenthaler's edges tend to wobble; they are overcomplicated; in some paintings, like Flood, 1967, they just go limp. She is undistinguished as a drafter -- in fact, some of her mature style...
Though the inclusion of more ethics specialists may prove a slow process, the development of a required first-year module has been a highly visible commitment to the subject--a commitment that can only help to attract scholars...
...many faculty members, to teach in the Core is to commit an unnatural act," Dominguez has said. "It's a lot easier to teach concentrators. You do not have to worry about the motivational aspect. You do not have to explain the subject matter...
Observers say the key to Bok's confidence is rooted in his method; he demands that large volumes of information be filtered up to him through Harvard's bureacracy whenever a decision is required. When Bok is interested in a subject, he insists that his committees and advisors provide him with a thorough presentation of facts and arguments...