Word: fecundity
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...nothing," answered Scott. "In a fecund nothingness. Don't be afraid...
...tinsel in the air." But just when it's getting the coldest, the days growing shortest, and the future looking most barren who can deny that we all like to return to the warm womb of familiar old Christmas? Who can say it isn't great to see that fecund, fetid growth of oozing summer at last driven from the earth as the land is purified by the cold...
Peter Weiss' play Marat/ Sade was explicitly based on a cryptic plot suggestion by Artaud. As directed by Brook, it proved to be one of the most fecund works in the contemporary theater. The naked backside of Marat has turned the stage into a kind of auxiliary nudist camp. The tormented, writhing chorus of the inmates at Charenton popularized choreographic stage movement in straight plays, and the eerie sounds and gestures have become the language of antiword drama...
...railroads, canals, dams and other public works that can make a community's future, defense contracts that cushion both businessman and worker. Yet ever-growing welfare costs and a troubled antipoverty program that has yet to buy civil peace smack of something for nothing. The unemployed, over-fecund recipients of the taxpayers' generosity seem ever less grateful, ever more pugnacious-just as organized labor grew more militant with each advantage gained. Where will it all end? ask many uneasy Americans. Will the second car or the boat be sacrificed to higher taxes? Will Daughter be raped or robbed...
...past three years have been among the most fecund in his life. "I'm in a state of euphoria," he reports, having completed more than 80 paintings and ten sculptures. Many of these go on view in a massive Miró exhibit that opens this week at the Maeght Foundation near Vence in Southern France. As always, he works, as he puts it, "in part by hazard; the main thing is the first breath, with great attack...