Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...preparation for the ensuing day's seminars, and 2) as interesting and informative forums for general attendance. We selected Senders Theatre for a number of reasons--accessibility, the permanently installed radio and TV hookups--which were valid apart from considerations of audience size. The fact of the matter is that 20th Century Week enunciated its goals many months ago and the actual program came creditably close to living up to our original conception...
...strong charcoal lines suggesting an arm, a torso, a head. Even his most realistic canvas, Last Civil War Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with P is not so much a picture of the rear end of a car as a study in force...
...ever be said to be boring. "If your interest is in features and fingernails," says he of his current phase, "the colors you choose will be subjected to that. But when painting a fingernail no longer interests you, then color itself takes over. There is a subordination of subject matter to a kind of force: the force of a red is what I am more curious about now than delineating a nostril...
...bearing cash crops. Says Jungle Jim: "This is pioneering the way we did out West 100 years ago. It's the most exciting place on earth." With the success of his plantation assured, Choate is building a brick house so that his family can join him. But no matter what his ad advises, he will not set his wife up in business selling him caninha: he cannot stand the stuff...
...Paul Bowles and Frederic Prokosch-and return it to the unperfumed condition described by that old camel trammeler, Foreign Legion Novelist Percival Christopher (Beau Geste) Wren. The Legion defends no forts in this tale, but there is an outfit called the Trucial Oman Scouts and there is, as a matter of fact, a defended fort. There is also some rousing prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment had come. My mouth felt suddenly dry. The Court was waiting and I knew the ordeal ahead of me was a long...