Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important developments emerged in the days before the scheduled special meeting. After students had vainly tried to enter the Dec. 3 meeting. Dean Ford quietly affirmed the Faculty's conturies-old rule against student attendance. Ford's insistence on the rule, of course, was the prelude to the mammoth...
Even now, while the big names in painting fill museum walls with mammoth abstractions, the practitioners of the minuscule thrive quietly...
Finally Shorty shows up and the fun begins. The first two hours of the smudging night are the best. After the foremen dump out the smudgers in their assigned groves, the kids get to light up the pots. Brandishing flaming diesel torches, and looking like cavemen on a nighttime Mammoth hunt, the smudgers run down the long rows of pots. They run in groups of two, the first lighting the oil in the belly of the pot and the second adjusting the huge flames that spout from the smokestacks...
...fatigues to an art studio on the military compound at Baden-Baden. Shortly afterward, his commander, General Paul Vanuxem, appeared and watched for hours as Ponelle, a onetime student of Leger, painted a 30-foot, three-paneled canvas glorifying the French army. A few months after Ponelle finished the mammoth triptych, Vanuxem was arrested as a secret leader of the O.A.S. and jailed, winning acquittal only after a two-year fight. The painting he commissioned was installed in a Roman Catholic church on the base, and was not shown to the public for years...
...hunt is as old as art itself. The an -cient Assyrians celebrated the chase in bas-reliefs, the Chinese in stone drums, the Babylonians and Egyptians in frescoes. Millenniums before, cavemen at the foot of the French Pyrenees depicted a mammoth hunt on their cavern walls. The ingenious killing of beasts larger and more powerful was, after all, the central achievement in man's ascendancy over other forms of life. But the hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne...