Word: michelangelo
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...compelling its owner to laugh, shout and run off into every corner of America, bubbling with mirth and his special prairie exaltation. Too often he loitered along the political byroads of America, gabbing and shaking hands and studying individual faces as if each were from the easel of Michelangelo. Of course, he lost the big elections. And he danced with all the fat old ladies in the union halls after the speeches and the first beers. When asked why he squandered the time and the energy, he explained that fat old ladies needed the attention and appreciated it the most...
Once they were erudite conclaves, giant, annual movable salons in which men and women could come and go, talking of interrobangs and Michelangelo. But last week, when 9,000 scholars gathered in Chicago for the 92nd convention of the Modern Language Association, the proceedings at times took on the character of a longshoremen's dock shape-up. With so few jobs now opening up in colleges and so many hungry young Ph.D.s in desperate need of positions, the job-market function of the M.L.A. threatened to upstage the intellectual encounter of linguists, English literature and foreign-language professors...
...afternoon the class labors on written reports, using library books and four sets of well-worn encyclopedias. Sixth-graders are taught how to write compositions with a bibliography; recent subjects include Roman history and Michelangelo. Second-graders learn how to diagram sentences. Collins doles out plenty of encouragement. "You're not slow; you just haven't been taught properly," she tells laggards in her strong voice, often hugging them for good measure...
...very proud, monsieur!" exclaimed a high cultural official after one of Courbet's outbursts against government. "Monsieur," he retorted, "I am the most arrogant man in France." So he was. Courbet considered himself the Michelangelo of socialism. In the 1848 revolution, he bragged, "there were only two men ready-me and Proudhon." The 1871 revolution found him on the side of the Paris Commune, which called for the demolition of that symbol of "false glory," the Vendome Column. Later, the Commune crushed, a vengeful state passed a law to make Courbet bear the cost of restoring the column. Bankrupt...
DIED. Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 67, organizer of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As chairman of the World's Fair Corporation, Deegan was instrumental in bringing the Pietà to New York City, the first time Michelangelo's sculpture had been removed from Rome in more than 400 years...