Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a good Hegelian, Tournier presents his thesis and antithesis. But he is also a good Jungian. Signs, symbols and archetypes are pried from every incident and lofted chaotically into the mythological vacuum of the modern world. The presumption is that these fragments are awaiting a supersign that will unify them into some sort of new mythic order. When this in fact occurs in Tournier's book, the effect is one not of artistic revelation but of melodramatic kitsch: a young Auschwitz refugee turns into a Star of David; the star, in turn, spins off to the heavens...
...assumption that everything painted west of Manhattan was provincial and therefore insignificant. It had not been dipped in the rolling Jordan of "the mainstream." When the work of California artists refuted this, the position shifted: now there was a New York-Los Angeles axis, but everywhere else I a vacuum. An exhibition is currently on view at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art that attacks this generalization too. "Chicago Imagist Art," a grab bag of work by 28 painters and sculptors, moves to the New York Cultural Center on June 27. It is a messy and often backward show...
...first to be recorded on the Met's stage since RCA threw up its hands at high labor costs in 1959, and as such it may he a harbinger. With Columbia, Angel and London curtailing their classical recording sessions in the U.S., DGG is moving into the vacuum with all the muscle its considerable financial resources will permit. Among the bonuses this may yield to the opera buff: DGG is said to be negotiating to record the Met's new Carmen next September, with Marilyn Home in the title role and Leonard Bernstein conducting...
...architect of counterinsurgency during the Kennedy Administration. After quitting the State Department because of a disagreement with Dean Rusk, Hilsman was now offering advice to the Republican candidate, and the galling thing was, says Whalen, that Nixon took it. "Such promiscuous brain picking revealed in due course the near vacuum where Nixon's own position should have been...
...spent much of the next four years doing part-time studies in metallurgical engineering. Then came Stalin's great purge, which swept hundreds of thousands of loyal Communists into prison. Brezhnev was too insignificant a party member to be among the victims. But the terror left a vacuum in the party leadership that helped Brezhnev-like his colleague Premier Aleksei Kosygin-achieve a position of influence quite out of proportion to his age and experience. In 1939, at the age of 33, he became a party leader of a major industrial region in the Ukraine...