Word: mountaintop
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Emerson would have us avoid this problem by rejecting the institution altogether. He would have us Harvard students reading and writing on our own, perhaps in the woods or on mountaintop. He would have us hatch theories of republican government and generate interpretations of literary works that are unfettered by the latest conventional wisdom or the newest periodization of artistic movements. He would have us think for ourselves, outside the institution...
...mentors he was acquiring, such as the painter John Graham. Even the sight of Hopi painters running colored sand through their hands to create a pattern on the ground below, so often proposed as the starting point of Pollock's drip painting, came to him not on a Southwestern mountaintop but inside MOMA, which had brought some Hopis to perform in Manhattan...
...lack of bathrooms--wags have suggested that when visitors call to reserve parking spaces at the museum, they should also be permitted to make reservations for one of the few rest rooms--but there are other problems as well. On sunny days the brightness of the light on the mountaintop location is exacerbated by the reflection from architect RICHARD MEIER's tan aluminum panels on the outside of the building. Employees now wear dark sunglasses as part of their work uniform. After the December opening--coincidentally, after Meier left--umbrellas were set up to provide some relief on the virtually...
...lack of bathrooms -? wags have suggested that when visitors call to reserve parking spaces at the museum, they should also be permitted to make reservations for one of the few rest rooms -? but there are other problems as well. On sunny days the brightness of the light on the mountaintop location is exacerbated by the reflection from architect Richard Meier?s tan aluminum panels on the outside of the building. Employees now wear dark sunglasses as part of their work uniform. After the December opening -? coincidentally, after Meier left ?- umbrellas were set up to provide some relief on the virtually...
...bottom line is that the campaign is a misfire, full of mixed messages. The last line of the essay in TV Guide, just after the celebration of cerebral-free non-activity, asks the reader to "climb the highest figurative mountaintop and proclaim, with all the vigor and shrillness that made Roseanne a household name, that TV is good." But "Roseanne," an ABC success that ended its run last season, always required a cerebrum for optimum enjoyment...