Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johns chose subject matter that was purposely flat and familiar-U.S. flags, targets, maps, and the digits one to ten (see overleaf}. But to him, they are no more commonplace than the lemons of the still lifes of yesteryear. Transforming everyday objects into images of uncommon beauty is unquestionably the artist's task, and for Johns the act of metamorphosis is full of magic. He says: "I am concerned with a thing not being what it was, with its becoming something else, with any moment in which one identifies a thing precisely, and with the slipping away...
...these distractions, the family's control of the business has been remarkably enlightened. Even the critics of its nepotism concede that the family shunts its mediocre members into powerless "drag" jobs. The Du Ponts motivate their hired managers to fierce loyalty by giving them uncommon amounts of power and money. To achieve the outlook and flexibility of a small company, they have broken up their firm into a dozen operating departments that are only loosely supervised from above. A department general manager is like a captain on a ship, free to chart his own course so long...
Hugh M. Raup, director of the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., said yesterday that the trees along the Charles are "certainly not the typical American sycamore, which is found in the Midwestern United States but which is uncommon in the East." He said they were probably specimens of the "London plane tree, which has been widely planted in the East as a boulevard tree...
...Broadway A SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, is a most unusual play to encounter on Broadway. It is a sex farce adapted from a novel by an Oxford University professor of philosophy (Miss Murdoch), and its true subject is the nature of reality. Acted with uncommon skill, it is a delectable repast of fun and thought...
...SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, is a most unusual play to encounter on Broadway. It is a sex farce adapted from a novel by an Oxford University professor of philosophy (Miss Murchdoch), and its true subject is the nature of reality. It is acted with uncommon skill, and it is a delectable repast of fun and thought...