Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peeve: Harvard students are too quick. This is not usually considered a problem. Aren't we, after all, the few, the proud, and the chosen? We are chosen for intellectual skill and the ability to articulate our marvelous thoughts. Campus society puts a premium on wit; if you aren't funny, or at least interesting, you're dead in the water. If knowledge is good, being quick is better...
Like most postmodernists, Hollein says he is not a postmodernist. But as the Pritzker citation declared, he is "one who with wit and eclectic gusto draws upon the traditions of the New World as readily as upon those of the Old." Says Hollein: "I was never afraid to use materials in new contexts--plastics or alu- minum or marble, and all this together." Nowhere does he put more forms and materials together better than in his museum of contemporary art in Monchengladbach, West Germany. The Pritzker ostensibly honors a lifetime of work, but surely it is Monchengladbach that...
...honest If don't like math that much, and the Abstract, though it calls itself a great statistical undertaking, isn't really that at all. The book celebrates baseball and the obsession that some of us have with it, and does it with unusual wit and intelligence...
...Wit and tragedy, both are evoked and invoked with consummate artistry clarity and immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...
...from the heart. A child of the Midwest during the '40s and early '50s, Schickel belongs to the last generation that automatically placed "silver" before "screen" and "glamorous" before "star." The world of celebrities, he confides, became "The Great Other Place"--a promised land of grace and charm and wit where nobody was ordinary, nobody was dull...