Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaf inclines its tip/ and drops from its tip a pearl." It is clear that Nabokov is describing a rain-wet shrub, but has his own good reasons for leaving indefinite precisely which shrub. It is as if he had written of a cavalryman saddling his ungulate (horse? cow? moose?) and riding away...
...family pride," he concludes that "the only way for them to get humility is through learning they're-you know-beasts." Accordingly, like a Greek mythologist with the heart of a gloomy seminary student, Keneally makes original sin literal by turning Father and Mother Glover into bull and cow from the waist down...
Instead, at Warhol's own insistence, the towering walls of the main gallery are hung, floor to ceiling, with Warhol's fuchsia cow wallpaper, in whose garish and assertive surface the paintings all but drown. A gesture of contempt for his past work? Not quite. This is Warhol's aesthetic of noninvolvement and repetition shoved to another extreme, to the suggestion that a hierarchy of images with a particular "masterpiece" perched on top makes no sense to him. The gross mooing of those cows in the Whitney china shop may also remind viewers of how insulated...
...bridges. But because we did not believe it we ignored it. What is frightening is that we ignore small natural circumstances without understanding the consequences. We can ignore gravity-but Kitty Hawk complete in a C-5A? There was still something not too bad when the trains had cow-catchers. Today it is inconceivable that they would slow down for anything. They run sterile on their tracks, with no response and no meaning to the landscape. We move our minds and hands in infinite silence and think we understand. The train is no longer foreign in the land, the land...
...past decade, Congress has viewed federal aid to education in three different ways: first as a suspect notion, then as a sacred cow and now as a bog of bureaucratic hobbling. Last week the general confusion left U.S. public schools facing considerable uncertainty...