Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Boteler of Baltimore, who went to Bolivia a dozen years ago, feels that continual incidents of police torture and murder are an outgrowth of distorted family values. "You have people who don't possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled...
Those who found him inspiring were right. Those who find him inhibiting are also right, for Rodin was a man of 19th century amplitude and not 20th century doubt. What sculptor, today, could one expect to possess such reserves of feeling, such an indifference to the errors of his own fecundity, or so unrestrained a tragic sense? To compare him with Michelangelo is not, in the end, impertinent, for Rodin was one of the last artists to live and work in the belief that making sculpture-despite the potboilers and failures in his output-was a moral act, that...
Mark Helprin has the knack of creating exquisite tensions without disturbing the surface of his stories. And he understands the fabulist's task: "Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes...
...paintings Lichenstein completed between 1970 and 1972. With their silvery surfaces, reflection lines and bevels and breaks in the light, which manage to function equally as pattern and as illusion (the mirror, in art, being one of the arenas in which both can live side by side), these paintings possess a ravishing formal elegance...
When his father dies, young Riddley Walker becomes his village's "new connexion man," the one who interprets the shows and reality in general. Some of his colleagues think that Riddley may also possess "the follerme," a mystical ability lead others and to make things happen. Indeed, destiny tugs the boy toward the ancient holy center of Cambry (Canterbury), where an odd pilgrimage of people and elements has arrived. This combination, if successful, will result in the rediscovery of gunpowder...