Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Observations, by Richard Avedon. Portraits of the famous, some impudent, some cruel, by a noted fashion photographer, with a commentary by Truman Capote...
...courage. "They have it. I have to save it." He disarms the lot of them, and sleepless, burning-eyed, with the energy of obsession drives them across the desert, drives them without horses, without food, without water toward a little Spanish town whose name means sanity. And as the cruel days go by, the heroes come to see that the coward is the greater hero, the more deeply courageous man. What they have is physical courage, not to be despised. But what he has is the highest kind of courage, the courage of his spiritual convictions...
Like other writers struck by early success, Novelist Norman Mailer, 36, is fond of discussing his talent, often in terms that make it sound like a prize begonia. "America is a cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from...
...malformed "images of man" are the latest art fad (TIME, Sept. 7), Goya made the victims of inhumanity-in this case, obviously a chained father and son-touching by the simplicity of their unadorned humanity. Instead of titillating the mind with sadistic fantasies, Francisco Goya dizzies the heart with cruel fact...
...Memoirs, near 70, he wryly discussed the illness "which the Italians call mal français." Wrote he, sounding puzzled: "The greatest part of my life was spent in trying to make myself ill, and when I had succeeded, in trying to recover my health. [Now] age, that cruel and unavoidable disease, compels me to be in good health in spite of myself...