Word: deere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, which includes Eric Mann's brother Dick, Harvard ministers John Crocker and James Sessions, B.U. professor Howard Zinn, and Mann's lawyer William Homans, learned two weeks ago that Mann had been transferred from Deer Island Prison to the Middlesex House of Correction, and is now being kept separate from other prisoners...
...group had decided to try for a meeting after two members talked with Mann during a visiting period last Monday. According to Sarah Driscoll, one of those who talked to him, he had three demands to present to prison authorities: first, to be transferred back to Deer Island, "where no wardens had threatened to destroy him"; second, to be put back with other prisoners; and third, to be allowed access to any reading materials...
...title of one of her best-known paintings, which depicts a deer skull with vast antlers hovering above a range of hills, is From the Faraway Nearby; it reflects her gift for telescopic and microscopic sight. On one hand, her work is obsessed with landscapes-as-epic, landscape as an active protagonist, exerting the immense dumb power of its presence on human intruders. "Those hills!" she exclaims, in front of a canvas of 1944, Black Place III. "They go on and on-it was like looking at two miles of gray elephants." In fact, her love of epic scale (although...
Mailer has been exposed to the press since fame caught up with him in his early twenties on publication of The Naked and the Dead. A few years later he could write, in The Deer Park, "A newspaperman is obsessed with finding the facts in order to tell a lie, and a novelist is a gallery-slave to his imagination so he can look for truth." So he began by saying that as sorry as newspapers are they are in some cases improved over their pasts, then decided that the functions of most reports could easily be accomplished by machines...
...LEAST some of the time, the world appears to me as a painting by Hieronymous Borsch; were I to follow my conscience then, it would lead me out into the desert with Marion Faye, out to where he stood in The Deer Park looking east to Los Alamos and praying, as if for rain, that it would happen: ... let it come and clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn...