Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind so much about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly that before Arcangelo makes a proper pass at her, she completes it. She finds that adultery, which should disturb her gives her a knife-edged joy. Arcangelo is "one of the three best poets in Italy," and through his eyes she sees the glories of Florence and Siena, and in his arms plumbs depths of awakened passion Arcangelo commands (Neddy had never given her a direct order), he is fiercely jealous...
...from affection: at the Louvre it is not the tourists but the Mona Lisa who smiles. Van Gogh had more passion, and for a time his popularity surpassed even Renoir's, but Van Gogh's best pictures are explosive compounds of joy and sorrow, more calculated to disturb than to please. Never a shadow of sorrow crosses Renoir's canvases; he painted simple, earthly pleasures in simple, earthy terms. "A painter who has the feel for breasts and buttocks," he once declared, "is saved...
Bombs will "fall" on Cambridge this Wednesday and Thursday according to the Civil Defense experts operating out of Natick Headquarters. But "Operation Alert 1955" will not disturb Reunion and Commencement festivities, the authorities have decided, "because Harvard activities are not necessarily normal...
...gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure of a Chinese warlord develops several ideas successfully, he adds one idea too many when he begins to speculate not only on the figure, but its creator. The additional element only serves to disturb the dignity of the immobile warlord. The third poem on art is Andre Gregory's impression of impressionism, in which he exposes the cultural disintegration implicit in modern art. If Gregory's poem is to be considered for its serious significance, one can only say that he is expressing himself...
...literature and moved by his religion, cannot always be satisfied by bread and machines alone. The Congolese, or those among them who have climbed fastest from darkness to light, are slowly starting to talk about such verboten things as self-rule and democracy. Their stirrings are not enough to disturb the massive calm of the Belgian administration, or impede the spectacular advance of the Congo economy, but they are perceptible. To some Belgians they are alarming. Says a top-ranking Congo official: "What would the Negroes do with votes? Votes mean Communism...