Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four, Stockton chose a wedge for his second shot, lofted a lovely 120-yd. pitch to the green: the ball hit a foot beyond the cup and took a backward hop in for an impossible eagle two. On the ninth hole, another tough par four, he blasted a six-iron approach out of a bunker and through some branches 158 yds. to a green he could not even see; the ball rolled dead two feet from the hole, and he had a birdie three. On the 13th, Stockton's second shot splashed into a pond; he took...
...founder with Painter Benjamin Palencia of the Vallecas school, which sought to escape from academicism and create a new kind of national art based on themes and images from Spanish tradition and folklore. Even while he lived as an exile in Russia, his sculpture, primarily in wood and sheet iron, remained distinctly Iberian in spirit. "He saw art in everything," his widow Clara recently recalled. "And once he had seen it, everything became a work of art. It all served his purpose-clay, stones he stumbled across on a path, old wood, a piece of iron...
...synagogue stands in the center of Carpentras. its austere stone exterior relieved only by a plaque bearing a laconic message: THIS HOUSE OF PRAYER, BUILT IN 1367, WAS RECONSTRUCTED FROM 1741 TO 1743. Inside, all is ornate -fine old chandeliers, green woodwork, delicately forged iron. The Louis XV décor in a synagogue seems as out of place as the large cross formed by the windows. The window arrangement, however, is entirely appropriate: for the synagogue of Carpentras, near Avignon, is a relic of a strange medieval relationship between the papacy and a Jewish community...
...Holland, at 26 the well-known author of four well-wrought and successful works of romantic historical fiction: The Firedrake, 1966; Rakóssy, 1967; The Kings in Winter, 1968; Until the Sun Fails, 1969; and most recently Antichrist, released this spring at almost the same time as Cold Iron. A former graduate student in medieval history at Columbia and a onetime clerk at Brentano's Manhattan bookstore, Miss Holland recently moved to a commune in Pasadena, Calif., having become deeply involved with the world of West Coast rock. Her former publisher, Atheneum, refused to publish Cold Iron, because...
...16th century, as well as for a girl who grew up reading Gregory of Tours as a teen-ager and still holds a grudge against Gibbon for leaving the footnotes to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Latin. "Call it wish fulfillment" she insists, talking of Cold Iron, "call it fantasy, but don't call it autobiography." The book took a year and a half to write and required 15 new versions. "Writing about history is easier," explains Robert Stone Pryor. "You know what the results are. All you have to do is think back...