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...volunteers is able to restore patients' confidence in their capacity to live outside. Reiss does not write too clearly, but his description of the status quo in state asylums is a shocking and important document. The accompanying line drawings by Marcia Roberts of Metropolitan State Hospital hardly equal the stark tone of Reiss's prose...
Words like "stark" and "raw" have been used both to praise and to criticize Le Corbusier's buildings. However, little has been said about one of the most primitive features of the new Visual Arts Center; the tall colored panels between the windows can be opened to provide a degree of natural ventilation in the upper four floors. This innovation would not have surprised the Indian who left a smoke hole in the top of his tepee and generous gaps around the bottom, but subsequent American architecture has largely overcome natural ventilation...
...Americans who visit Rome lose their wallets. Stephen Greene. 44. lost his style. Already established as a figurative artist, he won a coveted Prix de Rome in 1949. but cut it short after three months and returned to the U.S. shattered and ill. After he recuperated, he painted a stark, disturbing study of a skeleton crucified on an easel...
...Ortiz, 28, to the fleshy, bulbous creatures of Artemio Sepulveda, 27, to Francisco Corzas' fascination with hallucinations as "universal themes." Throughout the work, the palette is muted; Francisco Icaza, 32, argues that "reducing color makes form clearer." The results are uneven, occasionally repellent; but there is always a stark force about the Insiders that reaches out to the heart as well as the eye. Jose Mufioz, who at 34 is senior member of the group, explains his own anguished figures with a touch of poetry. "I am interested in finding the smile of a child, tenderness, the most human...
...relative liberality and boldness of Solzhenitsyn's story adds to the image of progressiveness deliberately fostered by the present regime. The editor of Novy Mir declares "This stark tale shows once again that today there is no aspect of our life that cannot be dealt with and faithfully described in Soviet literature." Here the image is more important than the reality: if Soviet citizens (and Western observers) can be convinced there is greatly enhanced cultural freedom, then the real state of affairs is not so important...