Word: bunyans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East 86th. Formerly a logger, this Pratt Institute instructor of sculpture now whittles on his own. Newel posts, finials and bobbins sprout all over his abstract trees or tumble from his table-top cornucopias. These carpenterlike sculptures have a deceptively utilitarian look, like tools and toys for Paul Bunyan, but they are exquisitely appealing. Through...
...nation is gripped with a falsely intensified grief that is causing a disgusting outbreak of irrationality. People are acting on impulse. John F. Kennedy was not a modern Paul Bunyan...
...subsequent musings on religion, The Varieties reads like a steady stream of confessions. "I am almost appalled at the amount of emotionality in it," James admits in his concluding chapter. In copious detail, James records the soul-searchings of religious figures like Luther and St. Theresa and Bunyan, and of not so obviously religious ones like Tolstoy and Walt Whitman and Carlyle. No type of religious experience, however humble or bizarre, is excluded; James treats them all with tender indulgence. The majestic agonies of Augustine are followed by the fussy gropings of an alcoholic. The founder of the Quakers, George...
...James the basic concern is always with the whole personality in its functional relationship to its environment. In The Varieties he therefore presents innumerable "case histories" of concrete individuals. Carlyle, Bunyan, Tolstoi, St. Teresa--all receive warm and sensitive treatment...
...Kremlin likes to paint life on a Soviet collective farm as spiritually rich and financially rewarding. The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant. Though foreigners laugh off the myth as nonsense, millions of Russians are asked to swallow it. Hence the shocked incredulity of Russians who picked up the Leningrad literary monthly, Neva. There, in a short story by Fedor Abramov, was a startling indictment of the apathy, discontent and frustrating failure of collective farm life that still exists after...