Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. "The artist has to have vulnerability, open up his feelings, and find a loving commitment." Though Diebenkorn and Natkin belong to no school and live and work on opposite sides of the continent, their similar approaches to painting have brought them both to a kind of stylistic halfway house between representationalism on the one hand and formal geometry on the other. Both are romantic abstractionists who have preserved on canvas a sense of place and object without the aid of recognizable images...
Most of the original Anna State patients increased their ability to work usefully within the ward; 21 of them have been discharged and are in "halfway houses," being cared for by their families or living on their own. For them, no tokens are required. Says Azrin: "The natural satisfactions of this world take over. The jobs the patients do and the friends they make keep it going...
Comparable rescue rates have been recorded in most of the 50-odd other U.S. institutions that are now using reinforcement technique. In the not too distant future, Azrin believes, "virtually all state mental-hospital patients can be discharged into sheltered halfway-house care." Reinforcement therapy has also been used with apparent success to treat alcoholics, autistic children and even unhappily married couples. Leonard Krasner, a pioneering reinforcement therapist at the State University of New York's Stony Brook campus, predicts that "within ten or fifteen years, many of the present techniques of psychotherapy will generally be acknowledged...
...subtle, passionate and deep yet completely controlled. Nevertheless Lola is in a desperate situation; if she fails to be hired by the Royal Theatre, she is through. At the scene's end, with nothing resolved, she backs out of the room and the frame closes in on her. Halfway through the door (and out of the picture), she stops when the King picks up her purse and gloves and brings them to her, in the act re-enlarging the surrounding space. His gesture amounts to a rescue...
...small, partially darkened, melancholy chapel-like gallery, while the spiky Gothic tracery of Clyfford Still's painting, 1947-J shares a gallery with four other Stills-and a spiky Gothic metal sculpture by Theodore Roszak. Gottlieb's cryptic Descending Arrow hovers in a cerise dream world, halfway between traffic sign and sexual symbol...