Word: piet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...
...means of wires from the roof. "This is a very great work," said Director Haftmann last week. "But we've got to learn how to use it." For opening day, he showed that he is learning fast by mounting a display of 73 suitably square-rigged paintings by Piet Mondrian in the gallery...
...designating some portion of their wages for the credit union. Result: the wages were duly deducted for the credit union-then transferred for payment as union dues, saving face all around. Such conciliation would be far easier if adversaries would only heed the aphoristic advice of Danish Scientist-Poet Piet Hein...
Updike's prose is, like Proust's, imbued with a sense of loss, with a profound perception of the evanescence of things, analogous to Piet's fear of death. It is this that drives Updike to greater and greater feats of observation. Everything, all the world's shapes and colors, must be preserved in words, as in amber, against its eventual decay and disappearance...
...attention to it, paying homage to the world, preserving it, transfiguring it, declaring it all worth saving. One can quote at random from his novel, for every page has gems of observation, rhythmic and charming passages of prose. Only the transcribed stream-of-consciousness of Piet is ever dull or banal...