Word: petered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Question of Selection. Throughout his long flight home on a commercial jet, Frishman, who became the group's spokesman, wrestled with what to say to the public. To TIME Reporter Peter Babcox, who joined the flight in Zurich, Frishman recalled his first encounter with the press in Laos with a grimace: "I expected everyone to want to know how I felt or whether I was looking forward to going home, but all they wanted to know was how I had been mistreated." Clearly, he and the others were bursting to talk of their ordeal and their impressions-but they...
There is no more celebrated living art ist in Italy than Giacomo Manzù. At 60, he is renowned throughout Europe for his stately cardinals, his great bronze doors of St. Peter's in Rome, and his role as friend, confidant and portraitist of Pope John XXIII. It was altogether fitting, then, that this summer Manzù should become the only living Italian art ist to have a museum dedicated to his work alone...
...strictly religious artist, the museum's collection may be a minor revelation. It demonstrates Manzù's uniquely quattrocento humanistic outlook, a faith and joy in life that could comprehend both genuine piety and unabashed lustiness. Besides many casts of the reliefs from the doors of St. Peter's, and other examples of his well-known religious works, there are lusty compositions of embracing lovers in the spirit of Boccaccio, sensuous studies of Inge in the nude, and a 1967 bust of her that has the graceful serenity of a Donatello Madonna...
...Alexandria itself, that city Durrell called "the wine press of love." Fox dispatched a second-string camera crew for a brisk six weeks' worth of location filming, but Cukor shot most of the picture at home in California-on a set that conjured up visions of Sidney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre North African thrillers. The ersatz locale is painfully obvious. "Justine," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the spirit of Alexandria, sensual and skeptical, self-torturing and passionate." Cukor and his collaborators have raided Durrell's exotic garden and left only a pale hothouse flower...
MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST by Peter Kropotkin. 519 pages. Horizon Press...