Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like O'Faolain, Julia Scully uses the memoir to reveal yourself to you. The primer begins in the emotional void of a San Francisco orphanage where Scully ends up after her father's suicide. By the time she rejoins her hapless mother for a make-do life in a makeshift roadhouse in godforsaken Alaska, "the smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke" is perfume to her, the rough miners princes. She works like a dog and builds an inner structure that gets her to Stanford and then to New York City, where she becomes a successful editor...
Picasso was not a philosopher or a mathematician (there is no "geometry" in Cubism), but the work he and Braque did between 1911 and 1918 was intuitively bound to the perceptions of thinkers like Einstein and Alfred North Whitehead: that reality is not figure and void, it is all relationships, a twinkling field of interdependent events. Long before any Pop artists were born, Picasso latched on to the magnetism of mass culture and how high art could refresh itself through common vernaculars. Cubism was hard to read, willfully ambiguous, and yet demotic too. It remains the most influential art dialect...
Acknowledging a Void...
...seems to have been an exceptional year for women at Harvard. Many say the College has finally recognized that Radcliffe's increasing marginalization in the lives of undergraduate women has left a void that Harvard must fill...
...reason, according to some, is that this trend toward the visual has lead to an impoverishment of the quality of public discourse, giving opinion journals an increased role in filling the void...