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...iron works, plus a handful of paintings and drawings, covering some 20 years of production. After Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale's new fine arts department head, looked over Smith's lacerating steel birds, ponderous tank totems and one creature of dubious charms compounded of salvaged auto fenders recast in bronze, he said: "Smith takes chances and he has the courage to fall flat on his face. He's the best-the oldest and the best...
Idyl's End. Author Cronin scarcely lives up to Herodotus or Hakluyt, for nowadays history is considered more "creative" if it is presented as fiction. Cronin has recast historic events in a form which the Persians call dastan, i.e., "near-factual history, almost myth." But the hero of this dastan will be remembered: Ghazan Khan, nomad chief of a tribe that Cronin calls the Falqani and a man hopelessly caught in the paradoxes of progress...
...movie's individuals are seen microscopically as mere cells of the whole. The problem is to drag, float and worry The Gun (recast from C. S. Forester's novel of that name) halfway across Spain to the walled city of Avila. The year is 1810. The objective: to bring down the wall, storm the breach and recapture Avila from the headquarters garrison...
Fitts explains in his Note to the current edition, "My theories of translation have changed so radically that any attempt to recast the work of fifteen or twenty years ago could end only in confusion and the stultification of whatever force the poems may once have...
Mendès seemed ready to return to the political isolation in which he had wandered for so many years. He has made no secret of his belief that the Fourth Republic will collapse within months, intends to stump the country in favor of a recast constitution...