Word: crucifixion
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...often suffered from morbid depression, a contention hotly contested by some of his heirs. Says the Rev. Jesse Jackson: "The thesis that his personal life was so convoluted that he couldn't function with clarity is contrary to the facts. What I saw was courage to the point of crucifixion." Some of King's associates object to Garrow's revelations. Even if true, says Wyatt Walker, former staff chief to King, "how does that change the value of his contribution toward sensitizing the nation on the moral issue of race?" But others who value that contribution just as highly...
...things as they are -- Daumier, Millet, the Barbizon painters, Fantin-Latour, the rural sentimentalists like Jules Breton, culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion). On the right are academic idealism and romanticism, Ingres and his heirs, Delacroix and his, smooth recipes of Grecian flesh and turbulent Byronic visions of nature. Beyond Courbet on the left, you have Manet; beyond Thomas Couture on the right, there is Degas. To stand in the sculpture-avenue between them...
...Crucifixion, as an act, has no action in it," he said. "The execution is passive. Perspective has the effect of fixing objects in space as solid; the lack of movement is what kills...
...smearily rising from blackness like carnivorous ectoplasm, his throne indicated by a pair of gold finials, the whole enclosed in a sketchy cage -- homage to an original that Bacon firmly denies having ever seen, the Velasquez portrait of Innocent X in the Doria collection in Rome. There are the Crucifixion motifs, reflections of Grunewald and the Cimabue Crucifixion in Santa Croce that was partly destroyed by the 1966 Florence flood, whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There are the humping, grappling figures on pallets or operating tables; the twisted...
...April 4, 1968 was a day of crucifixion," Jackson said. "I hope that April 4, 1985 will be a day of resurrection. I hope that day we will roll the stone away" and begin making progress toward improving the plight of minorities in the white-ruled country