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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Romance. Wyeth is limited. Compared with such a robust realist as Velásquez, he seems hardly to believe in reality. Compared with such a profound explorer-in-imagination as Pieter Brueghel, he sits by the stove cozily sketching. In context, his art has eminence. But the context is a shallow sea, shored by the book illustrations of his father, N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, and bounded at the horizon by the craggy islands of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer...
Today the children of Cantabrigian heresy who pass the Garden Street church en route to the hands of an angry God are offered quotations from the works of our day's most heretical apostates, out of context, of course. But the great gray walls of the edifice look down with the same unflinching austerity, lovely in its own right, which it lavished upon the person of a more dogmatic...
Readers' Sensibilities. The Bible translator, Phillips feels, must pay close attention to context-not only the context in which a word appears, or the context "of supreme urgency and often of acute danger" in which a passage was composed, but also the context of the modern readers' sensibilities. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord...
...final cast did quite well in The Male Animal, which was soon followed by an even better production of Pirandello's Henry IV. And President Pusey chose this time to announce his approval of an unofficial drive for a Harvard Theatre (but more of this later in its own context...
...other speakers last night were Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law, and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, who indicated that "no basic world peace" is posible in the context of Soviet ideology...