Word: embeddedness
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Sir: Your review of Malamud's The Fixer [Sept. 9] focuses its critical beam upon a nonexistent work: the "contemporary American" novel that the reviewer wishes Malamud had written. The book is judged in terms of what it is not, and therefore is found to have "missed." There is...
The speaker was Thailand's Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, and the occasion was proof of the conviction of his words. As Buddhist monks chanted blessings, the Thai leader stood on a wooden platform overlooking the Gulf of Siam and watched balloons lift a banner from a large stone embedded in...
Treasured Junk. Cornell's works were first shown in a New York gallery in 1932, exhibited with constructions by other artists under the general label "Toys for Adults." He has always used the visual vocabulary of surrealist collages: cut-up newspapers, pillboxes, corks, postage stamps, piston rings, things usually...
In only eight cases was removal of the fragments attempted, and in five the effort had to be abandoned. In one patient, who was opened up twice, a husky piece of metal was too deeply embedded in the right ventricle wall to permit removal. This man, now 42, works part...
Faced with this restless panorama, many are trying deliberately to rescue tradition. The result has been not only a wave of scholarly books re-examining and celebrating the American past, but also a passion for antiques and a new concern for the preservation of monuments and landmarks from the bulldozer...