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Recently she asked the class to draw such simple symbols as a flag or a dove of peace. Soon the lesson had blossomed into a study of the parts of speech. "I also had them drawing pictures of figures of speech, like 'you drive me up the wall.' They loved it. After that they seemed ready for similes and metaphors." Becker grades themes and tests at home at least three days each week, two to five hours at a stint...
...into meaning was the essence of his genius. Even when he was painting below form, he could always find significance in commonplace sensations, however distorted the actual form: the death in a goat's skull or the spikiness of a sea urchin, the feather softness of a dove, the looming stupid menace of a bull, a toad's lumpish slither...
That nose was, for a while, ringed by the French Communist Party. He joined in 1944 and painted for it the famed Dove of Peace, which the Soviets happily substituted for the hammer and sickle as their symbol of peace on earth. No political sophisticate and certainly no ideologue, Picasso eventually distanced himself from the party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. As Salvador Dali quipped: "Picasso is a Spaniard -so am I. Picasso is a genius-so am I. Picasso is a Communist...
Stewart was saved further embarrassment when Danny Skaff, who filled in admirably for injured captain Charlie Santos-Buch in center (three hits, flawless fielding) dove to his left to nab a sinking liner earmarked for extra bases...
...kind of surprised that I got to it," Bowles said after the game. "It was hit pretty well, but I figured I'd make a stab at it. Since there were two outs, I dove and somehow came up with...