Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, "is reminiscent of the eve of the Korean War." Last week, in a move that startled his allies as well as his countrymen, he declared a "state of national emergency" because, he said, "our country is confronted with a grave situation." In the process, he reinforced his personal grip on an already highly controlled democracy...
...most immediately recognizable painters in the world. For the past 25 years, critics have predicted the collapse of his reputation. Yet by now it seems that Bacon is one of the very few living artists whose work can (but does not always) exhibit the mysterious denseness of meaning, the grip on experience, which are the conditions of a masterpiece. "Who ever heard," he once sarcastically asked, "of anyone buying one of my pictures because he liked it?" But the tributes fall heavy, and the latest is a full-dress retrospective of 108 works in Paris, displayed in the Grand Palais...
Heavy indeed, but what to make of it? Nothing at all. Singer's life seems just as queer and unstrung to him in episode 22 as it did in the first. Likely it will stay that way. His father, who has a better grip on things, remarks: "Sometimes I stand back and look at you as though you're a piece of sculpture I'm carving." Singer protests that the carving is finished. His father agrees, perhaps ruefully: "There's a point when it's too late to change the concept. There...
...with his wife and four sons, rode the tide atop a patch of straw that had been the roof of their house. In the end, the man was alone. "They all lost their grip and floated away," he said, "my wife and sons, the big and the small ones." Said another victim: "That night it seemed as though the whole town was crying...
Terrill found China in the grip of a "mental unity" created by "the myth of Mao thought." Yet in daily life he noted an "appealing imprecision. People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests...