Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russells hands Gaudier Brzeska's life history has become the means to exploit in a richer vein Hollywood drivel about driven genius. His Graudier Brzeska is Artiste Extraordinaire; sacreligious, spontaneous ironic, innocent; ahead his time and shunned for flouting truth that shock prevailing social mores Russell films a disconnected string of melodramatic conceits to give us this bravura story of genius martyred through the neglect of bourgeois complacency...
...variety in unity. Sakai Hoitsu's (1761-1828) screen of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets is virtually a compendium of Rimpa techniques and virtues: the sprightly drawing of flower and tendril; the formal presentation of each poet in a separate cartouche, as in a print. In his more realistic vein, as in a screen depicting Flowering Plants of Summer, Hoitsu possessed epigrammatic powers of observation: the fronds bend and bow under the summer rain, weaving a delicate lattice of green against the now tarnished silver ground...
...communities of the population." When he was chief rabbi of the army, Goren found a way for Orthodox soldiers to drive jeeps or operate equipment such as radar on the Sabbath by pointing out the soldier's compelling duty to preserve Israel's security. In a like vein, says Goren,"if it is essential [for an Orthodox policeman] to control traffic on the Sabbath, then the way must be found to do it within Halakhah...
Eleanor McGovern works a different vein. Tiny though she is, her handclasp is as firm as a bricklayer's. There is no coyness at all in the level gaze of her round, china-blue eyes. She gives speeches everywhere, serious ones that she writes herself; and they are almost always new ones, an incredible practice in the jet-stop era of set speeches...
...Weed Factor ushered in a new vein of American fiction in the early and middle sixties including Pynchon's V. Heller's Catch-22, and Coover's The Origin of the Brunists. What these works all share is an abiding contempt for the boundaries of traditional realism and traditional notions of seriousness. The example of the early moderns, Joyce in particular, had been terrifying. In a novel like Ulysses, the most incidental details were somehow necessary. Instead of trying to compete on these terms, the novelists of the sixties rejected such lofty ambitions and produced fiction where everything was superfluous...