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...Null & Void." Interposition was put to its ultimate test when General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's ultimatum touched off the bombardment of Sumter...
...such intensity about legal doctrine. Some newspapers and legislators speak of "nullification"; others talk of "interposition," i.e., interposing the sovereignty of the state between its citizens and the Federal Government. The South Carolina legislature now has before it a resolution declaring the Supreme Court's decision "null and void and of no effect so far as this state is concerned...
...Daily Telegraph was concerned, the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell "bombinate in a void. Nothing is communicated beyond an apparently fortuitous anarchy of pigmentation." "An air of impermanence," said the Observer. The arch-conservative London Times conceded that the abstract-expressionist movement is the "one development in American art ... [that] has gained for the United States an influence upon European art which it has never exerted before." But as for the works themselves, the Times declared: "The large, uncompromising canvases . . . have a monumental impermanence, show a defiance of Art and a kind of strange anonymity...
...Paris, at a scant 27, that he proved himself a painter of felicity and not just flair. His Daughters of Edward D. Bolt (opposite) found a place at the Salon of 1883, and in the minds of men. One critic dis missed it instantly as "four corners and a void." Novelist Henry James was more discerning: "The naturalness of the composition," he wrote, "the loveliness of the complete effect, the light, free security of the execution, the sense it gives us as of assimilated secrets and of instinct and knowledge playing together-all this makes the picture . . . astonishing...
...times ... I grew sick, and numb, and chilly, and dizzy, and so fell prostrate at once. Then, for weeks, all was void, and black, and silent, and Nothing became the universe. Total annihilation could be no more. From these . . . attacks I awoke, however . . . Just as the day dawns to the friendless and houseless beggar who roams the streets throughout the long desolate winter night-just so tardily-just so wearily-just so cheerily came back the light of the Soul...