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Today one is not apt to think of allegory as a "modern" form, since it contradicts the abstraction of modernist painting. But it mattered a great deal to Picasso, and he resorted to it at some of his intense moments?not only the death of Casagemas, but in the construction of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (which began as an allegory of venereal disease, a subject of great interest to the energetic Pablo), of Guernica, and on into his "Mediterranean" subjects of the 1930s, with their bulls and horses, virgins and Minotaurs, caves, ruins and nymphs. Allegory was the conscious, intelligible...
...fuss over writing skill means one thing at least: students will write more. And that fact alone is significant, whatever the quality of instruction and the classroom method. Writing experts frequently quote an apt Latin proverb: scribendo disces scribere. It means that by writing one learns to write...
Heady with the euphoria of the early jet age in the 1960s and expecting one or more big Government contracts like the C-5A transport plane, the TFX fighter aircraft or the SST supersonic, Boeing grew fat and sloppy. Seattle's nickname for the firm was particularly apt: "The Lazy B." The company plunged ahead anyway and kept turning out short-haul 737 and 747 jumbos amid bottlenecks and shortages. Then the market collapsed due to the 1969 recession and earnings slumped, from $83 million in 1968 to $10 million the following year. Boeing in the late 1960s...
...well. Campaign audiences for the President's numerous rivals are showing at least as much interest in the economy lately as in Iran or Afghanistan. In Carter's own party, Ted Kennedy has made a demand for wage and price controls his major issue, and is apt to answer any question on any other subject with an attack on inflation. On the Republican side, Front Runner Ronald Reagan has been hammering increasingly harder on economic issues. Said he, campaigning in Illinois Friday night: "It's Government that causes inflation, and Government can make it go away...
...decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra Pound, he also fell in with free verse and the imagist movement. Poetry henceforth was to be simple, sensuous and direct, images fresh, startling and spare. Cummings proved an apt poetic experimenter, though some of his finest verse, eventually, was traditional...