Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghastly Gallop. In one of his most recent works, Landscape near Malabata, reminiscent of the outskirts of Tangier where he used to vacation, Bacon dissolves trees, grass and ghostly beasts into a ghastly gallop around the center of his canvas. Faster and faster they seem to run, until the shadows no longer keep up with what is casting them. One brushstroke more could throw it out of step, and Bacon knows it. He destroys more canvases than most artists paint...
...chameleon poet," who is submerged in his subject through "empathy"-the projecting of one's self into the feelings of others, even such slight creatures as sparrows scrabbling for crumbs in the street, or a field mouse peeping out of a field's withered grass. "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated," he wrote to Sister Fanny, "the energies displayed in it are fine. . . This is the very stuff of poetry...
...Judy Draper and her compatriots who stuck it out with the Brazil project have finally found work. They did so by digging in at the grass roots--by befriending the townspeople. In Lapa, for example, every Peace Corps project has grown out of interchange with the villagers. Mrs. Frances Cunha, 74, the oldest women in the Corps, started a day nursery and sewing class at the insistence of the local padre. Jim Murray was invited to teach English and geography in two Lapa schools. On the outskirts of the town, three corpsmen are building low-income houses in a cooperative...
...successive invasions of Arabs, Romans, Vandals, Spaniards, Turks, and finally the French -but it has never been totally subdued. No Algerians fought more heroically in the 1954-62 guerrilla war against France; yet the Kabyles charge that Arab Ben Bella has done little for their devastated region. Indeed, grass is growing up around the cornerstones of many a promised textile mill...
...damn much concrete!" roared one girl, and everyone following her took up the complaint. The plans call for large areas of pavement among the modern buildings along Garden Street, now an avenue of grass and off-campus houses...