Word: syntax
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...Syntax of Fantasy. What connects Klee's inner vision to present experience is not his power to transmit "reality" but the enchanting spectacle of his language. His inventiveness was phenomenal and contained surprising propositions for, and anticipations of the future. Flower Myth, 1918-with its squiggled symbols for plants and trees and chirpy bird flying across the red landscape of an equivocal torso that might be Mother Earth-is the ancestor of the flattened, wrinkled landscape-nudes, scrawled with graffiti, that Jean Dubuffet was to paint thirty years later. It is a syntax of fantasy, the color swelling...
...Film Syntax; Thursdays, 10:30 1:30 p. m., October 8-December...
...Being. The first two apparently dealt with a famous painter named Thomas Hudson enjoying a Bahama vacation with his teen-age sons and then, later, hunting German submarines around the Caribbean in his fishing boat during World War II. In his sins, sons, sub chasing and syntax, Thomas Hudson greatly resembled another straight and true artist named Ernest Hemingway...
...this was mere rote learning. To develop an understanding of syntax. Premack introduced a new symbol representing the preposition on. Given two familiar color symbols representing green and blue, for instance, and by watching the trainer place the green on the blue and vice versa. Sarah eventually came to understand the preposition's purpose. This was one of her first sentences, condensed to a three-symbol command: Green goes on red. Before long, Sarah knew how to obey commands in as many as twelve possible color combinations at an impressive accuracy rate...
...written a book. Perhaps unavoidably, most of the material in it is culled from speeches, position papers, office research. Yet to Lindsay's credit the mark of his personal syntax, the idiosyncratic cadences of his oral editorial style, glottal-stop through its pages. Touch this book and you may not touch a man, but you will certainly hear him talking...