"One of the most fascinating recent areas of research
is known as plasticity, which has shown that some
organisms have the potential to adapt more rapidly
and more radically than was once thought.
Descriptions of plasticity are startling, bringing to mind
the kinds of wild transformations you might expect to find
in comic books and science fiction movies."
— "Do we need a new theory of evolution?,"
The Guardian, June 28, 2022, by Stephen Buranyi
“Perhaps only Shakespeare manages to create at the highest level
both images and people; and even Hamlet looks second-rate
compared with Lear .”
— Iris Murdoch, “Against Dryness,” 1961
Byline from a 2019 post — ‘GLOBE STAFF AND NEW SERVICES’ —
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Above: Dr. Harrison Pope, Harvard professor of psychiatry,
demonstrates the use of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
“block design” subtest.
— From a Log24 search for “Harrison Pope.”
Related drama — Other posts tagged Plastic Elements.
“But for all its success, Mr. Webb largely distanced himself
from ‘The Graduate,’ which featured a Buck Henry and
Calder Willingham screenplay . . . . ”
— Harrison Smith in The Washington Post yesterday
Related material —
“the liberation of the plastic elements.”
"Meaning fragments" is a phrase from the previous post.
See Wechsler in this journal.
Related material —
"the liberation of the plastic elements."
From this journal on June 25, 2009 —
“… T. S. Eliot tried to recompose, in Four Quartets,
the fragments he had grieved over in The Waste Land.”
— “Beauty and Desecration,” Roger Scruton
From The Guardian today —
From this journal this morning —
“The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments
and binds them together . . . .“
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
"Step by step, Kepes follows the liberation of the plastic elements:
lines, planes, and colors, and the creation of a world of forms of our own.
The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments and
binds them together just as in another period perspective did when it used
a single station point for naturalistic representation."
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
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