Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallery window, Murphy discovered the cubist masters. He took art lessons from Diaghilev's designer, Natalia Goncharova, who would not let him paint anything recognizably real. Then he began to follow his own bent, meticulously rendering real objects in a bright, orderly manner. His first painting, Razor, done in 1922, was a heraldic crossing of a safety razor and a fountain pen below a matchbox, backed up by angular cubist meanderings. Another painting, 6 ft. by 6 ft., showed giant watchworks. Portrait detailed Murphy's foot and its inky imprint, three true thumbprints, and a prototype profile...
...Tuscans enjoy a chummy relationship with God; they do not prostrate themselves: "They have a way of kneeling which is more a way of standing up with their legs bent-exactly the opposite of all other Italians, who, even when standing upright, seem to be on their knees. In religious processions, Tuscans carry Christ along as if they were on their way to lynch him. They believe that even Christ, the Madonna and the Saints must sooner or later give an account of themselves-which is, one must admit, a fine way of turning the Judgment Day upside down...
...right, he said, are "business, the military, landowners, and the rich," while on the left are "a small radical minority bent on overthrowing them." But the Latin Revolution needn't be of the leftist variety, he claimed; it is "something that is going on deeper--economic, social, and cultural," and Americans can help guide...
...insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose. He ignores the usual poetical devices that are calculated to woo a reader, makes no concession to sound for its own sake. As he describes Hawthorne in one poem, his head is often bent down, "Brooding, brooding, eyes fixed on some chip,/some stone, some common plant,/the commonest thing,/as if it were the clue...
Taylor seems so bent on entertainment that he often slips into anachronism, and some of the pert dialogue between Angelina and the Shelby boys sounds more like 1964 TV comedy than 1840 backwoods. However, except for such lapses, Two Roads clips along at a lively pace, and despite the well-staged battles and general bloodletting, readers get the reassuring impression that...