Word: heroicize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, two of them as editor of Time Inc.'s International Book Society, before becoming TIME'S Books editor in 1968. Foote is still fond of children's books, but feels that what children need in books today is not "blobs and treacle but heroic nourishment, a sense of wonder, and pictures with enough texture and detail to be worth poring over again and again." He remembers "getting up at dawn, creeping into the room where N.C. Wyeth's Scribner's Classics were kept, and long before I could read, brooding over the pictures...
Wyeth was trained by Howard Pyle and influenced by Michelangelo. His rich colors, massive compositions and skill at texture and light have made the brooding and heroic moments he painted almost as memorable as the celebrated stories he chose to illustrate. Wyeth fanciers who can't get enough of the great man's work by dusting off their old books or peering over their children's shoulders should try this fine volume, which lovingly reproduces hundreds of Wyeth's pictures, briefly recounts his life, and concludes with a 127-page bibliography of books, periodicals, dust jackets...
...sheer energy and ambitiousness, Nixon's meetings with Senators, Congressmen and party leaders were nearly heroic. They were called in lots ranging from six Southern Democratic Senators to 78 Republican Congressmen. The sessions gradually expanded from an unsatisfying Nixon monologue to a tough exchange of views. Many of the President's listeners were impressed by his combative mood and at least outward confidence under fire...
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12; Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Murray Perahia, pianist; Columbia; $5.98). Schumann's piano music-a blend of heroic stride, demonic fantasy and impish humor-requires the age-spanning wisdom and maturity of a Richter or Rubinstein; rarely are the upstart young up to it. In this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric...
...successful photographer, David Plowden, 41, has crisscrossed the U.S. on assignments from magazines, book publishers and the Bureau of Public Roads. His favorite subjects, he says, are "our heroic machines and the great though often anonymous examples of our building art." Two years ago, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington sifted through a decade of Plowden's work and organized a show of 75 remarkable black-and-white photos. Now these same pictures have been collected in a handsomely designed and printed paperbound book entitled The Hand of Man on America (Chatham Press; $5.95). In a subtle, ironic way, Plowden...