Word: fleetingness
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For a living, in the 1840s, Daubigny worked for travel books and magazines, doing graphics of a candidness that showed his immediate vision of nature. The more dependent his landscapes became on fleeting optical visions, the flatter they grew, as if no matter how far away an object was, it...
NORRIS EMBRY-Elkon, 1063 Madison Ave. at 80th. Embry lifts the curtain on a drama in which shadows and echoes are the actors, and reality is as fleeting as a specter. With charred cinders for eyes, a face floats freely into space, tilting wanly as it rises, while tiny robed...
Borges delights in the multiplicity of things; he is fascinated with mirrors because they multiply. A poet cannot pin a thing down for eternity in a single phrase, nor a philosopher force it into a rigid system. Variety must be respected: "Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I...
Borges may baffle readers by being so many different persons in his stories and parables-an Irish revolutionary, a paralyzed Gaucho, a Nazi fanatic, the Minotaur. But all these characters relay a similar message: honor the moment, however fleeting; honor the human being, however humble.
The United States has a long history of supporting authoritarian and reactionary regimes in Latin America. When Kennedy came to office, many hoped that the pattern had been broken. There seemed at last to be clear vision in Washington that the interests of the United States lay with the aspirations...