Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-dressed man in Much Ado escapes a band of small-town hecklers by clambering to the top of a palm tree. There he turns himself into the latter-day equivalent of a 5th century pillar hermit. He promptly sheds all his clothes, capers among the fronds, and calls down unintelligible holy statements. Comments the narrator: "I could not resist a vague intellectual empathy toward the man who was now an abstraction - who had triumphantly nullified himself; who had attained the apex of an axiom." Similarly, in the title story, a "reliable, law-abiding, practical man" suddenly sloughs...
...work, Samaras has in effect dismantled the reliquary. He has ranged twelve or 18 mutants of the same relic-for example, a knife-in a clear Plexiglas case, calling the group "transformations." At the same time, he has not entirely abandoned books and boxes. Painted cutout silhouettes of the latter hang in their own black frames, subtly suggesting the ax about to fall. A curiously shaped book, its ten pages cut in lacy patterns and stippled with rainbow dots, contains Samaras' own moody, erotically Joycean fantasies (even Grove Press, he claims, refused to print them). Samaras' most celebrated...
...multi-party forms of democracy left behind by the departing colonial powers have vanished from Africa. Reason: the tribal tradition of decision by consensus leaves no room for a "loyal opposition." To the African mind, a political group is either for the government or against it, and if the latter, it has no business existing. More than half of the 30 independent Black African nations are still ruled by the same men who took over in the first days of freedom. While this reflects a stability of sorts, only one African leader has been voted out of office; inevitably, coups...
...week the 1,000-member subway-supervisors union plans to meet and decide what action to take if there is no progress on contract negotiations with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The union may strike or show its grievance with a slowdown. Even if it chooses the latter course, says Union Chief Frank Tedesco, the troubles for the city's 4,500,000 daily subway riders would "make the Long Island Rail Road tie-up look like minor-'league activity...
...Quite a smashing story on Nat Owings and U.S. architecture. But how can you present a survey of the latter without showing a single building by Louis Kahn? He may well be the most influential U.S. architect since World...