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They saw specially cleaned rooms in Matthews South, Hollis South, and Holworthy West, three of the oldest dorms in the Yard. Each time they had to brush past a plainclothes guard and were restricted to the chosen rooms. Once, an intrepid member slipped upstairs to spy on a "regular room...
...Monet's enthusiastic visitors during his final years was a painter a generation younger, Pierre Bonnard, who had a house across the Seine from Giverny. His Dining Room in the Country (opposite) is one of the best examples of what impressionism became under Bonnard's brush. In it, the transition from the blue tablecloth set in the cool interior of what is probably Bonnard's summer house, past the door and window, framing a dark-haired woman, to the shimmering outdoor vibrations, becomes a melodic, orchestrated movement from calm interior repose to the joyous peacefulness...
...paintings consider the canvas as a plane and the paint applied to it also a flat surface. The overriding concern is the relation of colors and lines in the plane. Like Mondrian, Jennerjahn aims at purity through the reduction of means. The curved line, spatial illusions, tricks of the brush are all given up. Design rather than texture is the keynote...
...part of the generals, although present Administration policy envisions a greater and greater dependence on weapons of mass-destruction and a smaller and smaller Army. Appealing as this may be to high-ranking Air Force officers and prospective draftees, it means inevitably a diminishing ability to handle the possible "brush-fire" wars that threaten sporadically in the Near and Far East. In other words, comes an act of aggression, we will then have to choose between using the atomic bomb (and very likely starting World War III) or backing out. This is high-stake gambling, which depends on the presumption...
...canvases get bigger and bigger, he is also intrigued by the thought of another project: "I'd like to buy one of those flying platforms they've just designed. Gosh, with one of those you could hover any place you wanted, and you could make 40-ft. brush strokes...