Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Adlington, in his 1950 work "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry," finds the key to Lawrence's desert escapades in narrow psychologism resembling this: Lawrence was illegitimate and dominated by a moralistic mother, and grew up a virginal bookworm lost somewhere in his studies of the Middle Ages. His rush into the Arab nationalist uprising in the 1910s was a subconscious effort to let loose his sexual-aggressive tendencies. But the consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height...
Inside the envelope, Kimball found a three-page handwritten will on lined legal paper identical to the type Hughes regularly used for memos to his staff. It was dated March 19, 1968, a time when Hughes was living atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. There were no witnesses' signatures. The will assigned one quarter of Hughes' assets (about $600 million before taxes and executor's fees) to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, his tax-free research foundation. One-eighth was to be divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada...
...death figure kneeling on a grave. The anatomy is haywire, the drawing childish; but this emptily grinning totem of wooden bones, flagellating itself above a mysterious round stone, is as strange as any surrealist sculpture by Giacometti, filled with a sense of isolation - an image as suited to its desert as any cactus flower...
...world in and around Cambridge has been producing thousands of words, but few pictures worth looking at, these weeks. Anthony Caro's sculpture at the MFA, one of the bright oases in the desert of exhibits, is leaving the museum May 9; Wedding just closed at the Carpenter Center. Gund Hall is trying to sell the Semitic Museum in an exhibit that contains three objects and lots of propaganda to show that something is going on over in the basement of the Center for International Affairs, where the Museum is buried. The Fogg's Contemporary Photographs are contemporary...
...looks like a major victory for environmentalists. The huge plant would have burned more than 1,000 tons of coal an hour, and environmental groups like the Sierra Club objected to the fact that its smokestacks would have spewed at least 300 tons of pollutants a day into the desert air, which is already being dirtied by other power plants in the area. The National Park Service agreed that the plant's emissions would harm the region; some 20% of the country's land managed by the National Park Service-including the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area...