Word: originally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson: Can you tell us a little about the origin of Bursars cards...
Braudel's work did not emerge all at once, or by itself. Its origin dates back to 1929, when Historians Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch founded a scholarly review in Paris called the Annales (Annals). Its tone was combative, its fervor evangelical. Its purpose: to debunk the chronicling of politics and biographies of great men that had obsessed historians since the 19th century. Let there be new approaches, Febvre exhorted, ranging from aerial photography to the study of climates...
Jaynes probably will not surrender his future books to the commercial instincts of a publishing house either, but with the success Origin is enjoying thus far his publisher would not mind. The book is already into a third printing and Houghton-Mifflin cannot keep up with orders for it, a solid indication that the tongue-twisting, technical-sounding title has not deterred many purchasers. Jaynes says he intends to follow his present work with a book on memory, then one proposing a new theory about dreams, and finally one on the consciousness of children. He adds that all of them...
...together over a prayer service in the Sistine Chapel, included a pledge "to live and work courageously in the hope of reconciliation and unity in our common Lord." Yet there was no further mention of intercommunion, and the prelates noted "serious obstacles both of the past and of recent origin." Presumably, the new obstacle is the ordination of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in the U.S., a move heartily approved by the visiting Archbishop and adamantly opposed by the Pope...
...wanted to have color be the origin of the painting," Noland said in 1969. "I was trying to neutralize the layout, the shape, the composition in order to get at the color. Pollock had indicated getting away from drawing. I wanted to make color the generating force." On this proposition, and the paintings that flowed from it, a palace of exegesis was raised-an academy so pervasive hi its effect during the '60s that hundreds of younger artists from New York to Sydney could see no way past it. The polished assurance of Noland's style, its clear...