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Rustling Grain. For so dramatic a piece, the golden burst had a prosaic beginning : Bertoia was simply trying to find a way of making metal wires spring from a core, like petals from a flower or rays from the sun. In other pieces Bertoia clusters metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze...
...some 40 years one of the most prosaic of political pundits, Columnist David Lawrence, 72, unaccountably burst into verse last week in his back-page editorial in U.S. News and World Report. Entitled "A World United?" and preaching peace through brotherhood, the seven-stanza work by Poet Lawrence concluded...
...Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camarāo. Western observers hastily advised that world reaction might be derisive, and Cameroun settled for a prosaic tricolor...
...United States was rocked by the U-2 incident, this summer Richard Nixon was accorded the Republican Presidential nomination, and less than a week ago Dean Bundy announced the possibility of another rise in Harvard's tuition.... And yet none of these dismaying events is more than a prosaic prelude to the shocking deed perpetrated the day before yesterday in New York...
Occasionally they receive a letter from their soldier nephew, Cliff, whom they had raised since he was orphaned as a child. But Cliff is as emotionally tongue-tied as his aunt and uncle: his prosaic letters might as well be coming from nearby Cincinnati instead of distant, mysterious, embattled Korea. Then the comfortable, cozy pattern of the days is shattered by a War Department telegram reporting Cliff missing in action. Alma passionately insists Cliff is alive and will return; she decides to write an account of his life. "It would be a kind of family thing." she tells her brother...