Word: ripeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasakom Is No More. Sukarno man aged his comeback subtly. Outwardly he appeared submissive, while secretly calling in junior officers for sessions ripe with flattery and promises. The seeds of rivalry were quick to sprout. At the same time, he wooed and won Moslem groups long neglected by the govern ment. All the while, the Bung was practicing the traditional Indonesian musjawarah, a catharsis by conversation that ultimately leads to consensus. Last week Sukarno felt it had been reached...
...dozen years have passed since Matisse died at the ripe age of 84, at a time when it could be fairly said that he was-with Picasso-France's most popular artist. He had had two museums (at Le Cateau-Cambresis, his home town, and in Cimiez, above Nice) devoted to his works; his oils had commanded five-figure prices for more than 20 years. Currently, the first comprehensive retrospective of Matisse's work since his death, totaling 345 works in all media, is traveling across the U.S.* The exhibition (see color pages) magnificently highlights his achievement...
...Winthrop has a telescope on the backdrop, just as the portrait of Nicholas Boylston (of which there are three nearly identical copies) depicts the wealthy Boston merchant leaning on a ledger. The tradition is not new; through much of the eighteenth century many artists possessed handbooks, like Alciati's Ripe (1635), which encyclopedically portrayed all the traditional symbols and gestures in art associated with important didactic themes like virtue or temperance. In most of Copley's work the symbolic paraphernalia, like the background materials, is executed in a style that strongly contrasts it with the foreground subjects. In the portraits...
...story on Russian Poet Osip Mandelstam [Jan. 7], you quote Mandelstam's line about Stalin's "putting a raspberry in his mouth" after each death, and then later, in describing the poet's arrest, you say that Stalin "who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth." Mandelstam's reference to raspberries was in a very special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled in 1934 to Siberia...
That view will be vastly different from the one that Johnson beheld twelve short months ago. Then, riding the tide of an unprecedented victory at the polls, the President looked around and saw a nation ripe for his brand of consensus politics. Then he had something to offer almost everyone-voting rights for the Negro, a tax cut for the wage earner, continued prosperity for business. Since then, the nation's problems have grown more complex and the solutions less easy. Where once compromise and cajolery worked, many hard choices are now required-choices that could alienate some elements...