Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wartime, the old masters of the School of Paris kept working: Matisse and Bonnard on their chosen imagery of Mediterranean delight, Picasso at his distorted, edgily claustrophobic figures. But with the galleries closed, censorship rampant and the choice of death or exile staring at so many artists, what "art world," as a system, could survive? The surrealists left en masse for New York; in the words of the English critic Cyril Connolly, it was "closing time in the gardens of the West...
Bernie Krieger is wearing his Glee Club tie again this year. He will not be singing with the Collegium; tighter Glee Club rehearsals forbid it, "and I could use a few more evenings free, anyway." Dr. Krieger, having spent last summer in the Mediterranean area with Collegium as tour physician, looks forward now to accompanying the Glee Club to China in the same capacity. "I'm very excited about it," he says, "we'll be doing some good singing this year...
...Shootout with the Libyans [Aug. 31] should remind us that the "shores of Tripoli" are already memorialized in the Marine Corps Hymn, dating from an earlier period when the U.S. fought to keep open the waters of the Mediterranean. With Reagan as President, the message goes out: "America is back!" It will be heard and understood both by our friends and by potential enemies...
...very happy and occupied while I'm there," he says, so happy that he has little desire to travel elsewhere. On one visit, Kelleher recalls, a friend said to him, "You've been to Ireland four times, but you've never been to Paris, you've never seen the Mediterranean--You bloody savage...
...going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further." So vowed California's embattled Jerry Brown last week about the Mediterranean fruit fly, a pest that has pushed Brown's approval rating to its second lowest level in his nearly seven years as Governor.* California Pollster Mervin Field last month reported that 72% of state voters rated Brown's performance as "fair" or "poor." Some 60% criticized his go-slow approach to aerial spraying of the tiny golden-mawed Medfly, which thus far has afflicted only one commercial farm...