Word: geometricism
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Geometric Progression. More than any of the other liberal Republicans, Percy can get a sympathetic hearing from the Republican right. He supported Barry Goldwater after the 1964 convention-though he later regretted it-while Romney rejected the national ticket. Goldwater never forgave Romney, and said of Percy last month: "I...
"Live to Be 100!" "The yé-yé look is fine for girls twelve to 15 years old, but it lacks the proportion for an older woman," says Valentino, who thinks that a woman's best years are between 30 and 50. "The vieille petite fille-the old...
Sir: Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American...
The situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned...
"Esthetics is to art what ornithology is to the birds," quips Barnett Newman. On the contrary, too many modern painters seem to listen first and paint afterward, to be guided by the art theory of others rather than an art instinct of their own. The turnover is so fast that...