Word: theorems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist André Gide wrote that "Nadelman draws with a compass and sculpts by assembling rhomboids. He has discovered that every curve of the human body is accompanied by a reciprocal curve which opposes it and corresponds to it. The harmony which results from these balancings smacks of the theorem." Gide had put his finger on one undeniable weakness of Nadelman's art-its cold intellectuality...
Since his break into print, Rugoff has spent lecherous leisure scanning letters from bobby-soxers of Manhattan and points west who prove through the Pythagorean theorem that Virtue Victorious will be our next national anthem...
...characters and their story dancing for two hours upon the pin point of one lifeboat were staggering. Result: a remarkably intelligent picture, almost totally devoid of emotion. Its characters are not so much real people, derelict upon a real sea, as they are a set of propositions in a theorem. Their story is an adroit allegory of world shipwreck...
...Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose "columns, arches, spandrils and dome follow each other with the logic of a Euclidian theorem." Wren's great transept is buried in wreckage, and there is a jagged rip in the resetted dome...
Unlike many Presidential addresses, this one was as logically constructed as a geometric theorem. It was divided into two great subjects: 1) what a Nazi victory would mean to the U.S. and to the world (which he had often said before); 2) that the U.S. would meet the menace (which would mean little until he decided how to meet...