Word: piero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). Great artists-Griinewald, Bellini, Duccio, Piero della Francesca-and their versions of the resurrection...
...flap-footed, tank-bearing skindivers have opened a new frontier in archaeology. Last week Piero Nicola Gargallo, 30, a skindiving Italian marquis, was telling how he found the ancient Etruscan seaport of Pyrgi. On the Tyrrhenian coast just north of Rome, the city is known from historical records, but only minor traces have been found on dry land...
...usual Arthur Freeman has written the nicest things in the issue. Two little poems "Atthis" and "A Pigeon Killed on Beacon Street" move quickly with their short lines and light rhythm; and a delightful irony masks satire in one and resignation in the other. Piero Heliczer's two poems are more lyrical. In P, his lack of punctuation, paucity of long syllables, and predominance of soft consonant sounds combine to produce an attractive whispering quality...
...reader can bring his gaseous juices under control after pondering the editorial ("We think that the few selections between these covers have the passion of youth, mixed also with a complexity of concern."), he will find a fine, if editable, story by David Farquhar, a rather sensational reappearance of Piero Heliczer in "Unpoem Number One," and a couple of West Indian sketches by Keith Lowe...
...Tuscan light, often over-brilliant, favors subjects admirably. A deep grey light of great clarity pronounced the rich earth colors of the Sassetta-like hills with their patterned bushes. The occasional pieces of white sculpture became phantasmal objects in their arbors of thick foliage. The tall veridian poplars of Piero della Francesa made familiar shapes against the clear...