Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Energy Beyond Confines. When Jackson Pollock, some years later, explored a similar kind of overall notation and weblike space, his paintings were seen as the epitome of American gusto. It is a curious irony that Tobey, another American painter, having converted city life - crowds, bustle, swift perspectives - into the primary image of his art in the '30s and early '40s, should later have been so monotonously greeted as an Orientalist by other Americans. No doubt this has to do with the intimate scale of his paintings. In any case, the best of Tobey's work reminds...
...emphasis from object to character, then from character to performer. Stripping the trio of their cloaks and masks, Borg leaves them with nothing more than their power as performers to carry on the disguise--not as real-life caricatures but as apparitions, dark imaginings. The work ends with a swift reversal of the transformation: cutting short their interaction as performers, the three twirl each alone, bobbing down to snatch up their overcoats, becoming one again with their masks...
...immigrant reaction was swift and sudden. The Jews' strong communal sense, Howe suggests, opened them to the socialist organization brought by radicals arriving from Warsaw and Vilna after 1905. Socialism became for the Jews a belief, as idealistic fervor, which, the immigrants hoped, would bring the actuality of their American world closer to their original vision of it. The new Bund leaders snatched their chances in the shirtwaist makers strike of 1909 which made of a brave but undisciplined group of female shopworkers the members of a recognized ILGW union and a year later, in the cloak-makers strike which...
...this soon changed. Cornell's swift midfielders kept the ball in their offensive end, and the all-American attack trio of French, Eamon McEneaney, and Jon Levine just passed Harvard to death. The fact that the Crimson got outshot, 64-22, despite winning 17 of the 32 faceoffs, attests to Cornell's ability to pass the ball and create scoring opportunities...
...swift and successful conclusion is hoped for by all parties concerned in the dealings in the near future...