Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resurgence of expressionist figuration offers a way out of the cul-de-sac in which German painting and sculpture found themselves after 1945. Hitler had trashed the avantgarde, driving modernism into exile or up the chimney. For a quarter of a century after that, German artists wore the virtuous American uniform of abstract art, as proof of their denazification. Now they breathe easier among their inherited imagery. At the same time, although there have been many dealers' shows of recent German art in America, museums have been slow to react to it. Consequently the exhibition that opened in June...
...system more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride...They harbour no thought--but what power...
When the U.S. had a nuclear monopoly it may not have always acted in a perfectly virtuous fashion, but it did support and defend freedom throughout the world, and it managed to keep the peace. In the light of the invasions of Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979), the crushing of dissent in Poland, and the unleashing of Cubans upon Angola and Vietnamese upon Cambodia, who would have preferred to see a Soviet nuclear monopoly in the years 1945-49, or would like to see Soviet superiority in the future? Eric Stocked...
...Kattrin, played by the lovely Brigit Fasolino. Her face is just right--a picture of peace, shell-shocked, ravaged, yet innocently eerie. In the very best production of this work, the character of Kattrin has been likened to Aristophanes' character Peace, who, though raped and tortured by war, remains virtuous and beautiful. Fasolino's Kattrin speaks volumes in her muteness and screams and silent scream at the close of the play. It is she who salvages this production's otherwise disastrous rooftop scene...
...come to a matter of character. John Ruskin said that only a good man can make a good artist, but that notion is disproved all the time. Good teaching, however, is another matter. No one knows how virtuous a person Milton was, but the speculation becomes irrelevant when applied to Paradise Lost, which, like every work of art, assumed a life of its own as soon as it was finished. The writer let it go. But the teacher of Paradise Lost cannot let it go; he becomes its life. Whether he sees the work as a brilliant display of versification...