Word: vacuo
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...most difficult problem for the English Department appears to be striking a balance between these courses on the one hand, and the specialized single author courses on the other. Assuming that the "great" poets--Chaucer, Shakespeare, or Milton--can only be considered in literary vacuo, these authors are glossed over or omitted from the period courses in order to receive full treatment on overlong courses of their own. The contemporaries of these authors are barely mentioned, although there is opportunity to consider sources exhaustively...
...possible to have a good Hamlet almost in vacuo. But a good Othello is impossible without a good Iago, and vice versa. Alfred Drake shows here that he can excel in something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect...
...Greek fisheries to Land Grant Railroads. Having trekked over the continent of Europe in a manner that would provide material for a novel, his experience as well as vast reading let him take the true measure of both Marx and Marshall. He realized an Economist did not operate in vacuo...
Rivera, however, is primarily a painter. Despite the fact that he too is, in a sense, a decorative artist, his work manages to transcend the limits of pure decoration, for his color is not simply color "in vacuo," but is integrally connected with the subject he happens to be concerned with. So that when we find, as we do in this exhibit, one of Rivera's prints, we no longer find Rivera in his complete form; we find a carefully executed piece, one worthy of praise but something which is emasculated when compared to his painting. Now these distinctions which...
...Hopper landscape serves only to heighten my belief in the excellence of the artist; the solid buildings, the clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related to the other in a very real sense, yet we are not conscious of any obvious attempt on the part of the artist to bring these elements together by means of labored and intricate composition. We find no straining at the leash...