Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depreciate the technical skills of representation in favor of the purer visions of stylization. Samson grappling with the lion, an llth century capital from Avignon's Notre Dame des Doms, contains within its stylized forms both the violence of the struggle and the authority of an abstraction. Its companion piece, representing Samson pulling down the temple on his head as six Philistine heads loom above, demonstrates Auden's observation that the old masters were never wrong about suffering: "How well they understood /. . . how it takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking...
Foote began reading Nabokov earlier than any of his colleagues. He was in Paris as a TIME-LIFE correspondent in 1955, when Lolita was published in a two-volume edition as part of Maurice Girodias' Travelers Companion Series. From this, and earlier Nabokov writings, he came to admire the author's enormous talent as a novelist. Now, after working on the cover, he is equally impressed by Nabokov's remarkable discipline and courage during a life of exile...
...iron, second-timers had a "B" branded into their foreheads and anyone foolhardy enough to be caught the third time suffered death without benefit of clergy. The Maryland legislature had an opportunity to do away with the current, milder version as recently as 1953, when it repealed a companion section on cursing (penalty: 25? for the first word, 50? for every word thereafter). But the lawmakers left the blasphemy portion intact...
Married. Dustin Hoffman, 31, the compellingly insecure antihero of The Graduate (TIME cover, Feb. 7); and Anne Byrne, 25, his frequent companion for three years (she for the second time); in a Reform Jewish ceremony attended by family and close friends; in Chappaqua...
...celebrate the 21st birthday of Alexander Onassis, heir apparent to his father's fortunes. Earlier, the soft Aegean wind had carried rumors that Alexander would commemorate his coming of age by defying his father and announce plans to marry New Zealand-born Fiona Thyssen, 36, his frequent companion and 16 years his senior. But Ari is a tough man to defy. When the birthday party moved on to a local bouzouki nightclub, Alexander asked his father, "May I take some whisky?" Aristotle reportedly replied: "Take anything you want-except Fiona...