Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went as far beyond it, besides some horses." Just so, all art is a lie told in the service of truth, but however feeble art may be in the face of nature, one still cannot get the real thing into a gallery: those mountains and seas will not fit, and Byron's horses are less tractable than Kadishman's sheep or Paradise's one-shot bull. Consequently, the best things in the Biennale were the displays which allowed the galleries to work as containers for visual metaphor rather than cages for a withered reality...
Given this pugilistic stance, this unwillingness to cut his conscience to fit the reigning Paris fashions, it is not surprising that Camus became a figure of global controversy. It was a difficult role to assume; he struggled with it until his death, aware that any political or artistic statement would be distorted. "One never says a quarter of what one knows," he confessed. "Otherwise all would collapse. How little one says, and they are already screaming." Even posthumously the man was not safe. In the '60s the New York Times listed him as one of seven heroes...
...globe. This month the 14 survivors and the West German team, the defending champions, moved to Argentina to join the host country in an exhausting series of round-robin matches for the World Cup, which is held every four years to decide who rules soccer. The play was only fit fully brilliant, and it produced no wonder team, no commanding individual star of the magnitude of Holland's Johan Cruyff and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer in 1974. But when all but two of the national teams had limped off to apply diathermy and beer to their wounds, anyone...
During World War II, the U.S. Government felt that any man healthy enough to run bases was fit enough to fight. The nation drafted or enlisted the best men from both major leagues, then told the teams to play ball. They complied by fielding a collection of players as unsuited for baseball as they were for battle. The old Washington Senators used Bert Shepard, who had one leg; the St. Louis Browns started a one-armed outfielder named Pete Gray. The Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher who didn't have to worry about being drafted; Joe Nuxhall was only...
...stains memory with its smell. It stank worse than anything else I have ever smelled. Even the escorting officer could not stand the odor and, holding his handkerchief to his nose, asked to be excused. Abandoned babies were inserted four to a crib. Those who could not fit were simply laid on the straw. They smelled of baby vomit and baby shit, and when they were dead, they were cleaned...