Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fluidity and sense of reverie. A faun--half man, half goat--arises from his sleep near Mount Aetna in Italy and wanders through the woods. The whole image is one of dreamy light and dark, tentativeness and delicacy. The faun chases a group of nymphs up and down the mountain, but ultimately loses them as he once again yields to the soothing oppressiveness of sleep...
...Assistance to a bank in which Flood owned stock. A Mountain Top, Pa., real estate development called Crestwood Hills ran into financial difficulties in 1974: then it became part of a Luzerne County housing project subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was able to make some of its payments on a $3 million mortgage issued by the First Valley Bank, in which Flood owns stock. Investigators are exploring a possible conflict of interest in Flood's dealings with...
...seriousness as an artist and his historical achievement are of very considerable magnitude, and will always invite judgment by the highest standards of modernism. But the work of his old age is not remotely of the same order as the late works of other old men of the modernist mountain-Matisse at 80 with his colored cutouts, the last paintings of Cézanne, Monet's lily ponds. That sense of exaltation, of a long life resolved and its aesthetic structures made luminously explicit, is missing. Instead, we get a lot of dash and gusto, a polymorphous, ill-focused...
Even among newspaper editors who support the Post's enterprise, there are many who say that both the Post and the Times are making a mountain out of a compost heap. "Let the titans fight it out," sniffs Claude Sitton, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and a former top Timesman. Miami Herald Executive Editor John McMullan suggested that for the next Watergate miscreant's memoirs, newspapers collude on a single syndication bid, not to exceed...
...king of the mountain, and tennis racquets are next...