Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lord of a sumptuous villa, master of a 200-worker foundry, Miguel Berrocal is, at 36, the latest in a long and rather glorious tradition of Spanish grandees in the arts. Like Picasso and Dali before him, he is both a dazzling technician and a self-consciously public personality, immoderately gifted and immodestly inclined to say so. With his French-born wife Michele, he presides over the 40-room Villa Rizzardi outside Verona, a Renaissance palazzo set among stately cypresses and broad formal gardens that he has studded with his own works. There, the couple entertains some...
...school that has rarely fared well in public esteem, expecially in the U.S. Fin de si�cle examples were customarily tainted by a kind of Wildean flounce, or could be made to seem so. More often the doctrine has been propounded to excuse artistic self-indulgence, sheer gush, or at best the refined outpourings of private feeling. None of these excesses apply to Nabokov. Few writers have brought to the practice of art for art's sake?or indeed to thematic literature?the enormous talent and discipline, the overwhelming intellectual grasp, the scrupulously objective range of eye and ear that...
...literary ancestors. Enjoying parody requires knowledge of the literary forms and fashions being spoofed?which is one reason why Nabokov is difficult. "He is not the kind of novelist," says Anthony Burgess, "whom you sit down to with a Scotch or an apple." In a rare moment of explicit self-exposure, Nabokov once explained: "While I keep everything on the very brink of parody, there must be on the other hand an abyss of seriousness, and I must make my way along this narrow ridge between my own truth and the caricature...
Venerable and Vulnerable. Heineman, 55, is the self-assured attorney who took over the wheezing Chicago and North Western Railway in 1956 and surprised skeptical industry veterans by turning the company into a moneymaker. Only four years ago, he began spreading into steel, clothing and chemicals, and later formed Northwest Industries, a holding company. Its sales rose impressively from $260 million in 1965 to $701 million...
...belong to the generation of Hungarian film directors for whom it was perhaps the hardest to find the way to an artistic self-expression." So admits Miklos Jancso, one of the oldest and youngest film makers in Hungary. Old, because at 47 he is a political aeon away from the newly defiant East European youth. Young, because his reputation is only now emerging from the guarded borders of his homeland...