Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rimbaud was indisputably the damnedest of the damned, but his biographies cloud into vagueness just as they become most fascinating. At 19, after four years of systematic "derangement" and blazing creation, Rimbaud wrote his bitter valedictory, A Season in Hell, then abandoned poetry-and his homosexual menage with Poet Paul Verlaine. During the next 18 years, until his death in 1891, he left only traces of wanderings that took him to Stuttgart as a teacher, to Java with the Dutch army, to Abyssinia as a trader, gunrunner and, probably, slaver. Now James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower) has come down...
Lighting up the first Horizon's 152 pages this week are captious musical memories of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an exuberant, perkily illustrated survey of pioneer ballooning, and 16 pages of photographs suggesting the glory of the earth's creation. Energetically but less successfully, Horizon embraces such -ho-hum items as a spoof on wine snobbery, a mystique-ridden study of why men climb mountains. It also carries a long-winded sneer at the Beat Generation, including abstract expressionist painters. But in another article it acknowledges that Abstract Painter Willem de Kooning is among the nation's bestsellers...
Author Jacobs brings to this study of "the creation and recreation of language" a proficiency in more than a dozen tongues. Brooklyn-born, onetime chief interpreter for the military government in Berlin, and now librarian of the Linguistics Department at the University of Jerusalem, he ranges through history, religion, love, and 37 different languages in covering everything from oxymoron (word paradoxes) to lallation (the pronunciation of l for r that is common among Chinese who speak foreign languages). A sampling of some of Author Jacobs' observations...
...have to do is work hard and figure things out." So said Ernest Orlando Lawrence in what amounted to a self-portrait. Hard work and hard figuring led to his development of the atom-smashing cyclotron and the Nobel Prize of 1939. His hard work led to creation of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, the country's best source of nuclear research. Last week when Physicist Lawrence died unexpectedly in Palo Alto at 57, science and the nation lost a citizen with character to spare...
...real name, François Lejeune), whose whimsies about the first two chapters of Genesis have made bestselling booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...