Word: cobwebbed
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...kaleidoscope factory. Abstractionist Miro had littered potato-sack burlap with insectile, wire-worky lines, spots and doodads. Miro's titles were less abstract than his pictures. Samples: A Drop of Dew Falling from the Wing of a Bird Awakens Rosalie Asleep in the Shade of a Cobweb; Women Greeting the Crescent of the Moon; Personages Magnetized by the Stars...
...stop. Throughout the year two thirds of the squad consistently competed in nine out of eleven possible victories. But only six of these will get a major H. The rest will have to console themselves with minor letters as recognition of their effort. For under Harvard's unique and cobweb-hung system, not those who compete, but only those who place against Yale earn a full emblem. A man can be one of the two best on his squad in an event, and still not display the big award. It takes at least fifteen men to play a football game...
Most of the panels are a strange blend of allegory and realism. Sample melange: Red Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward...
...enforcing competent standards of reporting and presenting the products thereof in a direct and forthright manner, regardless of the cobweb strands and musty rituals of the learned professions, TIME deserves wholehearted congratulations...
...Paul Jordan Smith has written Nomad, Cables of Cobweb. This month he waits publication of his newest book, The Key to Ulysses. Also, he is editing and interpreting Robert Burton's Anatomy of Mel- ancholy. ?Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), was a painter whose art was inspired by the primitive in nature, modified by a theory of sym- bolism in form, color, design. He declared that only in Tahiti, whither he retired, could he find proper stimulation for his work. His enthusiasm for the picturesque South Seas was shared by his good friend, Robert Louis Stevenson...