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...Primal Color. In Memphis, Bookkeeper Clara Bell Olds cashed a $6,000 check for her boss, ran off with the money, explained after her arrest: "When they shoved all that long green through the cage, I just couldn't resist...
...simple visions take on philosophical dimension because of his typically Spanish ability to combine gaiety and humor with the grotesque. Though this does not mean for him specific social concerns as it does with Goya or Picasso. Miro's world even as it exhibits the primal images of Jungian psychology does not cause pain. It does not probe or disturb the way Klee's calligraphic revelations of the subconscious seem to. Using one of his recurrent forms--the ladder Miro prefers to drift into a sea or sky world. As he said when the war broke out "I felt...
...atomic problem. It is the exercise of choice, the dangerous freedom to use God-given power for good or ill. I do not mean for a moment that science is wrong, but only man's worship of it. Surely, a part of our duty, the effect of the primal urge implanted by our creator, is to discover more and more of the world we live in. But science can give man mastery only over matter. It never reaches ultimates...
...University pans for its professors. The number of teachers who remain at the end of this selective process is small, since the University is continually sifting them. The prospective professor begins as a teaching fellow, a graduate student working for his doctorate. One of some 400, he is the primal form of faculty life. Frequently he must have completed most of his Ph.D. work, have passed his exams, and be writing his thesis to be accepted for the post. He is selected by his department, approved by the faculty dean, and given a maximum of four successive yearly appointments...
...presents a ball spun by two spidery hands, symbolic of "the world in its present condition of frenzied agitation." Two Half Moons, or The Disturbed Camel, sets against the night sky a haloed camel being worshipped by three Arabs who look rather like melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent. Toledano says he was trying to show "the seeds of life and the forces which protect it," using human, bird and animal parts...