Word: tethers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huxley sails far-distant waters. She is part Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Listen to the sea-only listen"), part Lee Strasberg ("Become an animal; make the noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge...
...show is arranged chronologically from the top; the viewer passes down the ramp past the polychrome landscapes and medieval fancies of Kandinsky's early period (1902-08), then by the transitional things-romantic, mildly experimental, Fauvish exercises-of 1910 to 1911 when he began to break the tether of traditionalism and started to experiment in earnest with paintings like Romantic Landscape (see color). In 1912, while living in Germany, Kandinsky reached a point of no return. From there on, he was committed to expressing a world of darting lines, moiling colors and nightmare shapes. Abstract expressionism, which went...
...niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry you he gotta da right be American citizen." Indignantly, the girl decides to marry the boy. At that the stevedore's obsession, like an elephant in musth, snaps the fraying tether of human feeling that restrains his frenzy. He betrays the boy and his brother to the immigration police. Too late the poor brute perceives that in betraying his friends he has betrayed himself, that in embracing the past he has forfeited the future, that in refusing to change he has agreed...
...Fitch sees it. Man began with God, "the only true faith," and then switched to the surrogate faiths of Nature, Humanity, Society (in the form of nationalism) and finally the Self. Today self-worship is in acute crisis, argues Fitch, and "atheism is at the end of its tether...
...show's end, the audience was near delirium and jaded U.S. fashion editors at the outer tether of objectivity. "The shouting, clapping, surging mob at the press showing caused chaos in the elegant salon," reported the New York Times excitedly on Page One. "M. Bohan was pushed up against the boiserie, kissed, mauled and congratulated. Chairs were toppled. Champagne glasses were broken. People were knocked down." Breathlessly cabled another U.S. reporter to her office: "Just dashed out of Dior to share with you still-boiling excitement." Wrote the New York Daily News's Monique: "Thundering applause...