Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the first stage of my absorption in Tapies' tricky abstract art form, I could have sworn that his work suggested merely a "well-raked garden" in an ordinary Buddhist temple, as distinguished from a "Zen Buddhist temple," as he described it. Finally, however, I caught the subtle clue to Tapies' entire revelation. I saw that had Tapies but an ordinary Buddhist temple to suggest, he would have used only eleven parallel lines against a background of mud. Actually, he employed twelve such lines, the twelfth line, of course, signifying...
...College basketball's two major tournaments were won by the underdogs. At New York's Madison Square Garden, sharpshooting St. John's of Brooklyn beat top-seeded Bradley 76-71, in overtime, to win the National Invitation Tournament. In Louisville's Freedom Hall, California's underrated Golden Bears slowed West Virginia's fast break, squeezed out a 71-70 upset victory in the N.C.A.A. championship finals...
...Christians should shudder," stormed Pastor Duncan, "at the idea that the agony in the garden of our blessed Lord, one of the most awful events in his Passion, should be thus exploited . . . Where are we going to stop? Next thing will be our Lord on the cross with his last words in stereophonic sound. I have no objection to religious art, but when you begin having dolls . . . good...
...bustling town of Poissy, 17 miles northwest of Paris, needed a high school and thought it had the perfect site. The town council expropriated 18 acres of farm land containing several orchards, a few small market-garden plots, and smack in the middle, a decrepit, uninhabited villa owned by the widow and son of a Paris insurance man named Pierre Savoye. Poissy's mayor proposed to indemnify the family and then tear the villa down. Last week M. le Maire wished he could forget the whole thing. The idea brought a hornet's nest of protests down...
...critic who makes judging a matter of principle-who keeps criticizing instead of trying to understand-is rather like a man with a cane, alone in a garden, decapitating weeds and flowers alike. Anything that has size or mystery about it stands in danger...