Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very young would do well to try a simpler volume, Ancient Egyptian Design Coloring Book (Dover; $1.50) by Ed Sibbett Jr. The motifs of cobra-goddesses, scarabs and animal deities are outlined with precision, and hints about traditional hues (red skin for men, yellow for women) can make anyone who owns a box of crayons into a high-chair archaeologist...
...cult of the "well-made picture." From the beginning, Still's art-unlike, say, de Kooning's-set itself in opposition to the cubist tradition with its small scale, ambiguities of space and geometric calibration. What he wanted, and had found by 1947, was a much simpler, grander and more declarative kind of structure: opaque, ragged planes of color rearing up the surface, emphatic in their brush-work-none of the characteristic cubist tonal flicker-and engulfing in their sheer size. If cubism was the art of hypothesis, Still would contradict it with an art of crushing visual...
...your article "The Nobel Prizes" [Oct. 29], you state that "the social sciences are frequently not so intellectually taxing as scientific research." If the study of philosophy is simpler than physics, then why are we still perplexed by the same age-old queries in philosophy, while the results of scientific research have propelled man to the moon and provided us with "miracle drugs...
...crowd of more than 400 includes not only OSS veterans and friends and family members but eight Senators, FBI Director William Webster and two wartime spymasters who went on to head the CIA, Richard Helms and William Colby. The old espionage hands come partly out of nostalgia for a simpler age of spying, before cold wars and dirty tricks scandals and congressional oversight committees. There is also a perceptible closing of the ranks behind the nation's now-beset intelligence establishment...
...make clear, Faulkner accepted editorial quibbles and orders to revise or rewrite with little complaint; it comes as something of a surprise to watch the future Nobel laureate acceding to the demands of the popular press. As a result of such proddings, Faulkner's magazine stories were usually simpler, more straightforward and less resonant than his finest work. Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared in the Post...