Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junta has clung to its program of middle-of-the-road socialism not only to reassure jittery businessmen, but also to assuage potential sources of foreign aid, who are concerned about the new regime's leftist cast. Nicaragua's leaders know that they need help to recover from the Somoza dynasty's 46 years of brutality and neglect. More than 45% of Nicaragua's people are illiterate. At least 500,000 persons driven from their homes by Somoza's fierce counterattack must be resettled. Food is in such short supply that long lines form wherever...
...morning. His teacher was a very Prussian octogenarian named Frederick Zech, formerly professor of music at the conservatory in Potsdam. "He was a great disciplinarian," recalls the pupil. "He turned me from a Sloppy Joe into a good technician. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what would have taken its place." But the effect of music on his later photography went deeper than inculcating a habit of technical excellence through discipline. "I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music, not in a sentimental sense, but structurally," he says...
When Adams' first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, was privately published in 1927, he was a fine technician who did not know much about the history of his own medium. He had not seen, or at any rate had not noticed, the work of his 19th century predecessors, Western landscape photographers like Carleton E. Watkins and Timothy H. O'Sullivan. He was still influenced by the so-called pictorialists, photographers given to arty blurs and poses. He also disliked the canonical painters of the American sublime, Bierstadt and Moran. "Indians and bears walking out to the edge...
...itch to know what's going to happen next seems ingrained in modern man, and can be valuable, at least to those Wall Street insiders who buy on the rumor and sell on the fact. But journalism's constant anticipation of the news can be like a runner dashing for third without having touched second base. Magazine writers, or the authors of books about current affairs, often find themselves gratefully surprised by how much remains unexplored and untold about major events that the daily press and television once swarmed all over, then abandoned. An English historian, when asked...
...haunting tale called The Circular Valley, Bowles portrays an Atlájala, an anima or genius loci that can inhabit the bodies of all creatures. Local Indians know enough to stay away, but over the centuries monks come and, then, robbers and soldiers; the Atlájala is fascinated at the complexities he finds when he looks out through the eyes of men. Finally, a man and woman unhappily in love enter the valley, and the spirit enters him. It finds "a world more suffocating and painful than the Atlájala had thought possible." Within the woman, though, "each...