Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...none of the facts even hint at the revolution to which Matisse's pictures stand witness. This law student from Le Cateau in the north of France saw the picture plane flat and saw it whole. He began treating it as a design rather than an imaginary view. A pattern in the wallpaper might come forward to take equal authority with a fruitbowl on a table. He saw women as outlines-a grace, a structure of volume, a presence in a landscape-and abandoned nuances of flesh tones in favor of vigor of composition. Perhaps as much as Picasso...
...Shaw planned. Ritchard, however, has decided to offer us an enticing appetizer. We hear from one direction a B-flat fanfare for solo trumpet-rather lonely and Coplan-desque in effect-answered from elsewhere by woodwinds. Then, accompanied by some drummers. Ritchard in full general's regalia strides in and delivers a short prologue extracted from Shaw's lengthy opening stage direction. There is no objection to this, for Shaw was characteristically unable to keep from putting some of his best work-often quite irrelevant-into his prefaces, stage directions, and notes...
...decade will spin far beyond the theoretical idealism and energy of Alinsky; perhaps the suicidal gestures of the Weathermen and the "polities of despair" are so pervasive and convincing that Alinsky's rationalization that "the pursuit of happiness is never ending-the happiness lies in the pursuit" falls embarrassingly flat. Still, his admirable dedication to the struggle for "life after birth" and the results of thirty years of organizing lead me to quarrel with the social critics who argue that community organization failed in the 1930's and it will fail...
...something so I won't have to do the column. When it's over, I feel like I'd been through childbirth. But then I hate every other kind of work, too." Divorced, she lives with her 14-year-old daughter in a Tel Aviv flat, and for relaxation likes to go to bed with a book, bonbons and apples. "I'm at my best in a reclining position," she explains...
...good many campers will settle for somewhat less. They want a flat place to park or pitch a tent (since portable gas refrigerators usually work only on the level), plus clean toilets and showers, and perhaps a swimming pool-at a price considerably below motel rates. To fill those needs, private campgrounds are opening all over the U.S.; they now offer about 427,000 individual campsites. As might be expected in a business where standards vary widely, the customer wants the additional comfort of a reliable chain's name. That in turn has led to the fast-growing business...