Word: rimas
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...eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History of the Conquest of New Spain, which remains the best first-hand story of the great conquistadors. From this first-hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala...
Ever since the forceful, forbidding bas-relief of Rima- was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin at Hyde Park in 1925, the work of Jacob Epstein, U. S.-born, London-dwelling Jewish sculptor, has been big news to the British Press, bitterly attacked by the conservative, enthusiastically praised by enemies of prettiness. Last week the newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin...
...three years after Novelist Hudson died, London bird-lovers dedicated to his memory a bird-sanctuary decorated by Sculptor Jacob Epstein, situated in Hyde Park. Sculptor Epstein's panel represented Rima, arms outstretched, succoring two birds of prey. But to the consternation of the bird-lovers and the embarrassment of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who unveiled the statue (TIME, June 1, 1925), Epstein's Rima was not the melodious and polychromatic creature of Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic...
Epstein partisans have defended Rima in abstract terms, excoriating the beloved statue of Peter Pan by Sir George Frampton in Kensington Gardens as the "wedding cake" variety of sculpture, "fit only for mid-Victorians...
Last fortnight a London ''bobby," strolling through Hyde Park on his early morning round, noticed something amiss with the bird sanctuary, approached and looked at Rima. She was almost invisible beneath tar and feathers. There were no clues. Public opinion was satisfied that this was the work of outraged friends of Peter Pan, the boy-who-would-never-grow...