Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pictures were sold, but that was pure velvet to Artist Epfs. He is actually Lawrence Durrell, author of the Alexandria Quartet, and it seems that he has been painting since 1930 ("but never every day, only by attacks") in a style that ranges from Impressionist through surrealist to abstract. What made him decide to have the show? "You can give just so many away. Friends really don't want any more." How about that nom de pin-ceau? "I saw Epfs in a Danish magazine, and I noticed that it couldn't be pronounced without making a grimace...
...little hope for any attempt for true full-time neighborhood control over programs to serve the neighborhood. These are working class people who have neither the time, the inclination, nor the training to pilot a comprehensive program of day care or job training or youth counseling toward a desired abstract goal. Furthermore, it is always risky to turn the public purse over to a small group, telling them to help themselves...
Although Cubism had an immense latter-day effect on abstract painting, it was not abstraction, nor did it want to be. Even in Picasso's Still Life, 1912, which must have struck its first viewers as an incomprehensible assemblage of planes and lines, the viewer's eye is drawn deep into reality-captured first by the fragments of newsprint, then finding the stem and bowl of a glass, the-edge of a table, the curve of a pipe...
...somebody were prepared to endow such professorships, we would be ready to consider action," Richard E. Neustadt, associate dean of the faculty of the Kennedy School, said. "But at the moment we have other priorities for the use of our own endowment and consider it an abstract proposition," he added...
...yesterday's interview, Moynihan emphasized the technical rather than the political nature of his role as Nixon's chief urbanologist. "What distinguishes one administration from another is not so much shifts in abstract policy positions as improvements in social science analysis," he said. He described his job as one of pointing out "the hidden policies of government, the policies not perceived as policies, and forcing the government to con-centrate on the second-, third-, and fourth-order effects of these policies...