Word: weak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DuChamp realized half a century earlier that an authentic aesthetic response is weak and powerless in the face of the pressure of public opinion. To most of us, an authentic aesthetic response is that ineffable "gut feeling," which in this age of narcissistic fiction, is resurrected to onanistic worship. But a gut feeling, exactly because its vague origin, which is so often confused with mystic truthfulness, is associational in its logic. The shudder of revulsion that comes when viewing a Lichtenstein is probably not an artistic response, but an externally motivated one, prompted by the antibourgeois biases of contemporary culture...
Henry F. Colt '46, director of University Development, blamed the drop of about $4 million from last year's totals on the weak state of the national economy...
...went into the city the next day I ran into Moon people all over. They were all so friendly, so warm, and I was being tempted back to the farm. They made Buster and me promise to come to dinner at the Hearst House that evening. I was weak and confused; Buster was wise. He put me on the next bus heading east
COLUMBIA--LAFAYETTE: I know absolutely nothing about these two. But here's a vote of confidence for beleaguered Lion mentor Bill Campbell, and a hope that he can finally beat a traditionally weak Lafayette squad. Columbia 12, Laffy...
...Harvard College Fund, feeling the pinch of the weak economy, is also in for a change in tactics. The Fund, which supplies the Faculty with 10 per cent of its unrestricted income, failed to break its $5 million goal established for 1974-75, although it did top last year's total...