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...physical and emotional deterioration. Conversely, work after age 65 can improve life expectancy, increase physical and emotional stamina, even boost earning power. "I'm not built for retirement," declares Weisbrod flatly. "I don't want to sit on a park bench." Thousands of aged Americans would probably echo that sentiment...
Terse Shapes. The word primitive simply evaporates in the presence of a work like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino...
Color attacks us from all angles. It mixes up perceptions with optical illusions; it stops cars; it provokes prejudice; sometimes it even inspires patriotism. But throughout the struggle to define it echo the words of an obscure fifth-century B.C. Greek philosopher who said, "By convention there is color, but in reality there are atoms and space...
...verse. "'Lord Weary's Castle' was clearly a religious book of verse, whereas his current books are not," Hecht said yesterday. "But his verse has a sense of continuity. It is an inquisition into himself, a painful and self-defeating questioning of the self which seems to echo the life of society in general...
...government-a sign perhaps that his own thinking was changing-few Portuguese were adequately prepared for the heretical turnabout of ideas in his book, Portugal and the Future, which came out last March and became Portugal's overnight bestseller (200,000 copies). In words that had an eerie echo of the arguments against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Spínola said what many in the country had been thinking: Portugal cannot win its African wars, and some political accommodation must be achieved with the rebels...