Word: locus
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Life precipitated in the city, the locus of modernism. His own cities were Leipzig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above...
...16th century B.C. they had discovered a corporeal way to treat it. Opium is recommended as an analgesic in the Ebers Papyrus, an early reference work listing nearly a thousand prescriptions used in the times of the Pharaoh Amenhotep. Egyptians and some Eastern cultures believed that the physical locus of pain was the heart. This...
...troops are stationed in 112 countries, from Iceland to the Philippines. But this year, at least, the most visible departures and homecomings have had a U.S. locus, the stretch of North Carolina that includes the Marines' Camp Lejeune and the Army's Fort Bragg. This month, 2,000 troops returned from Grenada, and 1,800 Marines, some aboard the Iwo Jima, came back from Lebanon. They stepped into a familiar dream. Bands played. Infants were tweaked. Couples swung M-16s out of the way and hugged. The troops were home. They had served, and served well...
Forget that Yentl is set in Eastern Europe. The film's true locus is the mind of Barbra Streisand, where the familiar conventions of the musical mix easily with the private compulsions of a born-again Jew who happens to be a Hollywood hot shot. On the evidence of Yentl, she has been other women as well: the adoring child listening to her papa, and now telling him what she has learned; the gawky teen-ager eyeing her less gifted rivals; the budding artist stretching the limits of craft and ego; the novice director showing tact and assurance behind...
...must, the grounds will have changed. Walesa has indicated his willingness to accept the new "political realities" if the regime softens its line. Argentina will at best be in a position to ask for a gradual transition to perhaps joint sovereignty with Britain. And while Palestinian nationalism lives, its locus may already have shifted from the P.L.O. in Beirut to the inhabitants of the West Bank. Voices there are now being heard speaking not of a P.L.O. state but, within the post-Lebanon terms set by the Reagan plan, of an autonomous homeland with links to its neighbors...