Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where he drowned himself at the age of 67. Subsequently, all of his novels, plays, poetry and humorous sketches were banned. Last month the magazine People's Literature published two of Lao's last poems. According to one stanza, "If there were no Communist Party, Then all would be a wilderness of ghosts...
...work. Not with Nevelson. She will be 78 next year, and there is no more prolific or respected sculptor in America. Her boxes and walls, filled with accumulated wooden fragments painted a uniform black, white or gold, are among the fixtures of the modern imagination. But at an age when many artists are content to repeat the clichés they invented, Nevelson keeps on extending herself. The proof of this-if it were needed-is the centerpiece of her current show at Manhattan's Pace Gallery, Mrs. N's Palace...
Embedded in this color is a profusion of shapes: balls and balusters, cubes, boxes, spikes, seamed and weathered palings, fragments of ogee and cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood. By now, Nevelson is a scavenger on a nearly industrial scale, given to buying up whole demolition contracts to secure material. It is possible that some of the wood sold by her father, an emigre from Kiev who started a lumberyard in Rockland, Me., in 1905, has found its way back as table legs or broken newel posts into Nevelson's sculpture...
...afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...
Isabella Walton Cannon, newly elected mayor of Raleigh, N.C., explaining why, at age 73, she went into politics: "I'm an active person-I couldn't sit still. I retired at 65 from the business office of the North Carolina State University library, and I figured I'd live to be 90. That's a good chunk of time. I'm not the book-club type...