Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jason is no longer the young, virile hero, wandering aimlessly through the Hellenic world so absolutely self-confident. He is a king without a country, a thinker with no outlet for his ideals. His cold, calculating mind obliterates any feelings he might have for Medeia or his two children. Pride...
CERTAINLY there is nothing new about groundbreaking art being greeted with skepticism. The philistines met Gaugin's primitivism with exclamations of "Why, a child could do that!"; the Impressionists were laughed out of the Academie Francaise; Franz Kline's random slashings and Jackson Pollock's random drippings ran another gauntlet...
Burundi is a land of luxuriant beauty and berserk violence, torn apart by one of those tribal conflicts that are so elusive to an outsider's understanding. Determined to uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no...
There is a mournful formalism about Akhmatova's poetry, a quality that shaped her sentiments in much the way that the laws of nature dictate the beauty of crystals. Her life is reflected in the cold facets of her art. Early poems tell of her unhappy marriage to the...
FICTION 1 -Breakfast of Champions, Vonneguf (1 last week) 2-Once Is Not Enough, Susann (2) 3-Law And Order, Uhnak (3) 4-Evening in Byzantium, Shaw (6) 5-The Matlock Paper, Ludlum (4) 6-Facing the Lions, Wicker 7 -The Odessa File,' Forsyth (8) 8 -The Summer Before...