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Like the late works of Beethoven, the graphic art of Goya seems to transcend the limits of style and arrive at an absolute. The parallel is interesting because both men produced their greatest works shut off from the world of sound. Misfortune no doubt seemed endless in Goya's case: he lost his famous mistress, the Duchess of Alba, soon after he lost his hearing. But in spite of the compounded misfortunes, there was some compensation. It was just about this time that he was really finding himself as an artist. His etchings follow the last developments, describing the concerns...
...paragraph, Rubin states that Look Homeward, Angel "is a novel, composed of memories stored up when the rememberer 'saw things whole', and saw them in depth . . . The first novel . . . was the unified and successive record of moments in which the author felt the sensation of stopping chronological time and transcend physical place...
...masters, is coming to the end of his career in a swirl of glory. His heavily larded oil paintings seem to glow with ever brighter colors. His reputation is steadily increasing. Because Rouault himself stood apart from the Paris-born art movements during his time, his work seems to transcend the fluctuations of contemporary tastes; the appeal of his religious subjects speaks more clearly with each passing decade. Rouault's powerful paintings glow in the mind like images in Gothic stained glass. With their strange, archaic quality, one critic noted, "Rouault has taken us back through the centuries...
...reliance on education for its top personnel, he deplored the assumption that education is but an instrument for financial success. Calling attention to the increasing dependence by universities on "government and business for the sustenance they must have to keep alive," he warned, nevertheless, that educational institutions must transcend their environment so that they may be critics of it. Industry, he held, should not attempt to exert control over educational policies, no matter what its financial contribution...
...demanding curriculum, is more in need of exercise and the heavy breathing it induces than his more dilettante brethren to the south. Moreover, Harvard Law School, which has pioneered so many advances in legal education, should not miss the opportunity to begin turning out lawyers whose athletic capabilities transcend the links and the green felt...