Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proud display in the N.C.F.A.'s new gallery, the paintings are suffused with something approximating their original unearthly aura, a weird kind of radiant half-light that Ryder thought of as "golden luminosity." It floods across the two foreground figures in Christ Appearing to Mary, painted about 1885. It pulses in the background of The Flying Dutchman, which shows the phantom ship gliding across the horizon behind an open boat manned by three storm-tossed mariners. As Ryder remarked: "What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" In this painting...
...Guardian (Manchester/London) -Catalyst to the nonconformist British conscience and representative of the most informed and intelligent sector of British progressive, liberal thought. Not a newspaper to which readers react neutrally, it has de-emphasized news in favor of criticism, interpretation and political polemic...
...Today, when the economy is strained by inflation, Friedman's challenge commands serious attention and growing support, and is a topic of heated debate among economists, bankers and Government officials. The controversy has lifted Friedman to eminence as the leader of the so-called "Chicago school" of economic thought. Increasingly influential abroad as well as at home, he is one of the principal economic advisers to Richard Nixon. Says Paul McCracken, the incoming chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "In recent years, all of us have become, if not Friedmanites, at least more Friedmanesque in our thinking...
...engine of inflation," complains Friedman. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, produced in the first instance by an unduly rapid growth in the quantity of money. I've sat in many a meeting with the Fed and argued with them. Three or four times I thought they had got the message, but every time they've strayed off the track...
...structure of 20th century religious thought, the works of Ingmar Bergman perch like gargoyles. Their gnostic faith belongs to no known dogma; their acrid doubt is too large to sit in the cool shade of existentialism. The Shame, latest of his grotesqueries, once again prays to a dead God, once again mixes actuality and surrealism, calamity and humor, a fertile mind and an arid soul...