Word: charcoaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unforgettable Loneliness. In 1915, when she was teaching art in Amarillo, Texas ("My country-terrible winds and wonderful emptiness!"), Georgia sent some of her charcoal sketches to a friend in Manhattan. The friend in turn took them to Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who had opened a gallery for unsung artists. Stieglitz was so impressed that he began hanging O'Keeffe paintings alongside his Braques and Marins, and eight years later he and Georgia were married. The partnership lasted until his death in 1946, when the spotlight had already begun to shift to a wilder and more chaotic kind of abstraction...
...once proud university sank even lower as a kind of Moslem Kaffeeklatsch, without exams or degrees, a place of courtyard classrooms where masters and disciples swatted at fusty theological disputes. Students lived in airless cubicles, three to one windowless room, sleeping on the floor and cooking on charcoal burners...
...stone and shingle that have sprouted (19 million since 1940) as from a bottomless nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance of honeysuckle and roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller skate against concrete, the jarring harmony of the Good Humor bell tolled the day; the clink of ice, the distant laugh, the surge of hi-fi through the open window came with the night...
...paused here and there to enjoy a spell of nothing more salacious than wife-watching. Tanned, brief-clad women sprawled in their chaises and chatted about babies, Khrushchev, Japan and the P.T.A. In the patios, the amateur chefs prepared juicy sacrifices on the suburban Buddhas -the charcoal grills. Mint-flavored iced tea or tart martinis chilled thirsty throats, and from across hedgerows and fences came the cries of exultant youngsters and the yells and laughter of men and women engaged in a rough-and-tumble game of croquet or volleyball. (In Springfield Township, near Philadelphia, nine couples recently pounded through...