Word: erasmus
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Best of all are the palindromic sentences (Dennis and Edna sinned; Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus...
Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman, 47, is almost as pessimistic on paper as he is on film (Winter Light, The Silence). Bedridden for four months with a bronchial infection, Bergman issued a statement accepting The Netherlands' Erasmus Award ($13,800) for his contributions to the arts. It was less a statement than a cheerless obituary on the arts. "Religion and art are kept alive for sentimental reasons," brooded the Lutheran pastor's son; and the modern artistic movement "seems to me like a snake's skin full of ants. The snake is long since dead, eaten, deprived...
...Erasmus' Doodles. All of this makes Kitaj (pronounced Ki-teye) pop's most literary painter. After soup cans and Cinemascopic cartoons, critics found his collages of madcap memorabilia, portraiture and complex puns refreshing. In 1963, London's Times even went so far as to declare that his first one-man show had put "the whole new wave of figurative painting in this country in perspective." This left up in the air the question of how much of Kitaj's charm lies in his witty verbal byplay, how much in his agile draftsmanship and startling colorism. Last week Kitaj was back...
...since Gainsborough, and endorses his statement that "Art is a game by which man distracts himself." And Kitaj provides enough puns and anagrams for a month of Sundays. His paintings are a kind of litterbug's playground, scattered with the paperwork of mass communications. There are doodles drawn from Erasmus' notebooks, titles that refer to obscure Marxist-Leninist deviationists. In one corner of his An Early Europe is pasted the source photograph of neoclassical nudes that inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow an economist's catch phrase, The Production of Waste, to title a 1963 oil showing...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...