Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others would be people like W.H. Auden, William O. Douglas, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Earl Warren, Lady Bird Johnson, one of the Berrigan brothers, Ramsey Clark, Sissy Farenthold or Joseph Biden, the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
...Interstate Park Commission taking title to BRF and as much other land as possible (Con Edison need not own the surface of any land not directly needed for access and operations of the pumping station), including the uphill reservoir--for this will have certain recreational benefits, at least for bird-watching in winter...
...emotional events and trying circumstances in his life. His father was stern and autocratic. When young Ernst was only 14, his pet cockatoo died. The same day, almost to the hour, his favorite younger sister was born. Thereafter, Ernst's subconscious apparently kept mixing the images of a bird as hope, maybe with sex and therefore regeneration; of father as creator and destroyer; and of the whole world as both a dreadful and exciting place...
Eventually Ernst migrated back to Europe and a small house in the south of France, where he is busy doing lithographs and engravings. One of his better recent works is a collage of the church St. Sulpice in Paris, complete with that insistent bird...
...freedom from meticulous realistic detail. If one can judge from this show, Ernst has recovered in old age the ebullience that can make him imagine an abstract sun setting over an abstract Arizona desert, re-create from memory a fine old image of Adam and Eve, or reduce a bird to one aggressive beak above a red colored square. He may not be getting better but it is clear that, even past 80, he is still inventing...