Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab but of a French writer who goes under the pen name Yousef Khader. Explaining his anonymity in a letter to the Algerian newspaper El Moujhaid, the author said: "These days it is extremely dangerous to denounce the criminal aims of imperialists and Zionists. I cannot reveal my true identity for security reasons...
...whole, the show is well balanced, offering its viewpoints of modern man from both a social and a psychological perception of the human struggle. Both artists dip with eloquence into the terrors of man's estrangement from both himself and his fellows. Both reveal the possibility of hope, emphatically stated in the paintings and delicately woven into the sculpture. From two vantage points we are given the impression that we exist, despite the apparent chaos of an inhuman world...
...Stone has written a book, The Killings at Kent State. which illuminates some of the pressures which caused the shootings and the cover-up which followed. Moreover, he has published some official documents which reveal how the cover-up was effected-including an FBI report prepared in June which says "we have some reason to believe that the claim by National Guardsmen that their lives were endangered was fabricated subsequent to the event." The book is partly a collection of pieces about the shootings which Stone wrote late last year for the New York Review of Books, with a special...
...smoking break of a final exam. From your summer in Europe, you remember fighting viciously with someone you like about the quickest subway route to the Cinematheque. From your beautiful year-long romance, you remember only your lover standing before you, her eyes tearing, her hand spread open to reveal dozens of tiny red sleeping capsules. From the newspapers, you remember only the killing, the killing, the killing...
McCarthy clearly finds in poetry an order and tranquillity absent from the world in which he achieved recognition. His meter, diction and rhetoric are traditional enough, as are his subjects: nature, religion, aging, death, love. They reveal a man with an abiding desire to be isolated, unclocked, unshackled by the limelight. At times this shows directly: "Beyond the coffin confines of telephone booths, my arms stretch to read, in vain." At times it appears obliquely: "Poor fish who knew the sea why did you dare...