Word: styling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than most run-of-the-mill German-style tenoring. His semaphoric acting bore witness to his Navy training...
Last fortnight Scotland's famed physiologist, 68-year-old Sir Robert Hutchison, made some remarks on the style of British and American medical literature. Occasion: A David Lloyd Roberts (famed obstetrician who died in 1920) memorial lecture before the London Medical Society. The average time before papers get into print in scientific journals is around 12 months, but last week's issue of the British Lancet gave Sir Robert's speech front-page billing. Excerpts...
...literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are not yet so bad as that here...
...there is no illusion of life in his work, but a plastic equivalent for it which has a life of its won." Now this statement, though not applicable to all of Cezanne's work, is a simple, yet comprehensive summary of a very important aspect of the artist's style. And if we spend a few moments studying the three Cezanne paintings which are now being shown in Fogg Museum, we can begin to see the truth embodied in Mr. Phillips statement. Cezanne manages to create something besides the object which he is representing; and that "something" which he creates...
...typical of the artist. Rolling hills, solid mountain, and a general structure based upon gradually receding planes, comprise the basic elements of the pieces. It is difficult to say, as many do, that Cezanne is a painter who appeals primarily to the intellect. Despite the fact that his style is one the foundation of which rests in a mental concept of his subject, his feeling for shape and his comprehensive power of suggesting texture and quality, serve to strengthen and support my belief in his capacity for influencing the senses. Like most great painters, Cezanne succeeds in striking a just...