Word: caving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mires under a cliff that bears the washed-out legend, "Repent." Mildred gives herself satisfactorily to Juan in a barn and Pritchard, repulsed by Camille, reverts to the Pleistocene by outraging his wife in a cave. What the symbolism of repentance has to do with the characters is not made clear. But readers aware of Steinbeck's great reputation and considerable gifts will feel that he has cause to repent as a novelist...
...first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet and sentimental pair of nudes. In the end they emerged as a nightmare vision of two twisted and highly ambiguous beasts (see cuts for steps 1, 6 and 9). Frank Sinatra himself never...
...walls of London's Australia House last week, painted beings with white, mouthless faces wavered. Some of them appeared to be swimming in seas of little kangaroos, ducks, lilies and yams. They were copies of rare aboriginal cave paintings found in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia-and they looked a good deal fresher than the child's play of much modern...
...cave paintings are among the oldest art known. The reason they looked so fresh was that every year, for centuries, Australian aborigines had retouched them with red and yellow ocher and pipeclay white. The aborigines believe that wond'ina-the strong, gentle spirits of rain and fertility-made the pictures originally, by casting their shadows on the rocks...
...Cave-Dwellers' Paper. The Star caters to the "cave-dwellers"-the permanent residents, scorning what McKelway calls the "short timers." The cave-dwellers get their names in the paper regularly, at social gatherings and community club meetings. They can't do without the oldfashioned, fussily-detailed front-page cartoons, drawn in familiar, familial style by 77-year-old Clifford K. Berryman and his son Jim. And the best-read feature is Charles E. Thracewell's This & That column, which is about birds and bugs...