Word: doneness
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...five youths. Mandela has frequently derided De Klerk as a man who ''talks peace while making war,'' accusing him of being responsible -- directly or indirectly -- for the political violence in South Africa. At his press conference in Johannesburg to acknowledge the award, Mandela was asked what De Klerk had done to deserve it. ''Just ask the Nobel Peace Prize committee,'' Mandela replied. The freedom fighter at 75 has retreated a great distance from his initial description of De Klerk as ''a man of integrity.'' De Klerk is now simply the man he must do business with. The award has mixed...
...story get the Nairobi-based Purvis down? A little, he admits. ''The decision to come here can be trying, although I always feel better when I'm on the plane and the job has begun.'' We look forward to knowing he is on a plane home, his work well done...
...applaud the Pope in his hard stand against abortion and premarital sex. Sure, sin still abounds, and all of us have done something in violation of God's law. But that is no excuse to justify and legalize evil. Wrong is wrong. The Golden Rule still fits: ''Do unto others as you would have others do unto...
...Haitians knew the fleet was on its way. According to American and Haitian sources, Pezzullo wasn't about to bargain. ''You said you were someone who could deliver,'' Pezzullo told Cedras. ''You said your word was good. Now you look stupid and foolish. I'm not saying you've done all the bad things that have happened, but I lay it all on . you anyway because you've always said that you're responsible for order in Haiti.'' Taken aback, Cedras was silent. Then, says a person present that day, ''he tried some country lawyer games about how to interpret...
...Miro claimed that his landscapes ''have nothing whatever to do with outer reality. Nevertheless they are more Montroig than if they had been painted from nature.'' His work was to have an immense influence on abstract painting -- What would American artists in the '40s, from Arshile Gorky onward, have done without him? -- and yet it never lost its sense of wonder at the world or ceased to anchor itself in sharp little signs and pictographs denoting the specific. Its utter conviction is furthered by Miro's resort to painstaking, almost old-masterly construction and technical effects...