Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peredonovism" (greediness, egotism, pettiness and lechery), Sologub's gloomy symbol became part of the Russian language. But the fame of his creature brought the author only temporary comfort. The bearers of the hammer and sickle did not take to Sologub's fin de siecle literary notions. After the 1917 Revolution, Sologub's works were put on the Soviet index. He died, penniless and in despair, in 1927. It was only four years ago that the Soviet Union finally permitted The Petty Demon to be reissued-in a small printing of authors prudently labeled "enemies of the nation...
...lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...
...dirty work, my black things," and one a few doors away for her white work. Her material is wood, shaped for utilitarian purposes-and salvaged by her from dumps and antique shops, or donated by friendly driftwood gatherers. For tools she uses an electric band saw, files, and a hammer...
...through a downstairs window. They tore off the steel bands and punched out a lock to get through the two steel doors guarding the third floor room which housed the stolen jewels. To get into the display safe which housed the valuable jewels they had to jimmy and sledge-hammer their way through a steel and concrete lid and two inches of display glass. The burglars also smashed their way into seven other display cases. The whole job must have taken them at least three hours, but they were not discovered during that time by any museum employee...
Places was the subject of the next group. In "Homage to Flanders" Miss Sarton expressed the feeling she experiences whenever she visits another of her homes-- housed the valuable jewels they had to jimmy and sledge-hammer their way through a steel and concrete lid and two inches of display glass. The burglars also smashed their way into seven other display cases. The whole job must have taken them at least three hours, but they were not discovered during that time by any museum employee...