Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goethe, would have been aghast to see what German state culture in the 1930s got up to -- and yet the first item in this show, his elaborate drawing entitled The Power of Man, 1786, showing a hunter and his young companion on horseback dragging home the carcasses of a lion and a huge eagle, predicts many of the elements of Nazi classicism if not its overweening vulgarity. The taste for earnest, portentous and sentimental allegory, which now and then muddies the work of even the best German artists in the postwar years -- Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer -- is well and truly...
...LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (PBS, Jan. 14, 8 p.m. on most stations). Wonderworks presents the first hour of a three-part mini-series based on the classic C.S. Lewis story of four children who discover a magical kingdom...
Officially, China is a champion of black-African interests. The government has denounced South Africa's policy of apartheid and devoted the lion's share of its scanty foreign aid to assisting 45 friendly African states. Beijing also gives scholarships to 1,600 black students each year to study at Chinese universities. Unofficially, though, many Chinese consider blacks racially inferior and question their government's aid to Africa when citizens at home are tightening their belts...
...planner offered by our sister publication FORTUNE magazine. But I just could not imagine treating the appointment book's appendices, filled with FORTUNE 500 listings, as a personal breviary. Let others run with the bulls and the bears; the symbol of my investment strategy has always been the Cowardly Lion. To me, a term like "covering a short position" refers to St. Louis Cardinal infielder Ozzie Smith...
Fire Came to the Earth People (St. Martin's Press; $9.95) speaks of another kind of legend. The moon goddess Mawu, say the West Africans, wanted to keep fire for herself. The lion, panther, elephant and antelope vainly tried to persuade her to part with the secret. Then the chameleon had an idea. Straw was gathered and given to the tortoise. He sneaked it up to the sacred flame. The glowing embers were gathered under his shell and valorously brought home, safe forever from the jealousy of Mawu. The secret of Susan L. Roth's retelling lies in the strong...