Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin-born George Grosz, 62, is no newcomer to scenes of horror. It has saturated his work, from his earliest sketches of World War I's mutilated and dead to such latter-day oils as The Pit (opposite), done in 1946 and now a public favorite in the Wichita (Kans.) Art Museum. A Little Yes and a Big No, the title of Grosz's autobiography, sums up his attitude to life. But though his little yes in the years since 1932, when he came to the U.S., has produced some pleasant, classic nudes and some sunlit passages...
...into his work, he soon disappointed his champion, vinegar-tongued U.S. painter John sloan, by going soft, burying his Germanic vitriol and trying to establish new roots as an illustrator. But as Grosz himself noted: "It is not easy to keep repeating yes, everything's fine." With The Pit, which Grosz identifies simply as "the story of my life," the big no sounded loud and clear again. In it are the memories Grosz has tried to drown in the oil of his canvases: a bloated soldier from his war years, carrying his own amputated leg; a drunken alcoholic child...
...final games, at 2:15 p.m., will pit Adams against Saybrook, Leverett against Timothy Dwight, and Kirkland against Trumbull. W L T WIN. 6 1 0 DUN. 5 1 1 ADAMS 3 1 2 KIRK. 3 4 0 DUD. 2 3 2 ELIOT...
...Nenni returned last week spouting his reports, many an Italian who had been voluble on the merits of the Nenni "opening to the left" fell into crestfallen silence. Snapped one Italian politician: "That's no opening-that's a trap door, and right over the bear pit...
Confronted with the dead body, men have asked themselves at various times: "Shall we lay it in a boat that is set adrift? . . . Shall we expose it to wild animals? Burn it on a pyre? Push it into a pit naked to rot with other bodies? Boil it until the flesh falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder...