Word: serpents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serpents in the Depths? Despite the new outburst of exploration, many mysteries remain. The creatures that live in the depths of the ocean are still only slightly known, and they may include the famed sea serpents of salty folklore. Sea-serpent sightings have diminished of late, but Revelle thinks this may be because fast, noisy, modern ships make poor platforms for serpent sighting. Sperm whales dive for gigantic squid up to 50 ft. long that live at great depths and have never been captured by man. Why should not the squid have companions down there...
...Place to Run is a kind of composite of the Southern political rabble-rouser with glints of Bilbo and Talmadge, Huey Long and Orval Faubus. Sixtyish, red-gallus-snapping Gene Massie is as loyal as a barracuda, as lecherous as a fruit fly, and as fork-tongued as the serpent who got the first woman's vote from Eve. He bills himself as "the WHITE people's choice" for Governor, and he runs on a platform that has served him ever since he was a two-bit sheriff: "Fightin' the niggers and fightin' th' aristocrats...
...pies begins each picture with a cloudy idea, possibly just a word, such as "serpent" or "tree." In working, he may decide to paint only the skin of the serpent, or the texture of wood. This usually involves mixing marble dust or sand with his dark pigments: the result is like a shallow bas-relief with muted colors suggestive of the earth's own crust. Tàpies confesses to "struggling" with his materials, then intently observing the outcome: "I am the first spectator before my canvas. I am a normal man. If it touches me, it will touch...
...hiding Adam and Eve, but a man named Agenor finding his twin brother Belus making love to a girl named Hebe. The fig-leaf episode (No. 4) is the surprised lovers guiltily covering their nakedness, during which Hebe falls for Agenor, and in No. 3 is advised by the Serpent Death to give Belus an apple from the Serpent's tree. The apple drugs Belus into unconsciousness (No. 2), whereupon Hebe tells Agenor to finish his brother off, which he does with his curved knife (No. 1)-the scene interpreted by the author of Genesis as God performing...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston was a plain Jane with weird endearing ways. All men were apparently fascinated by her. To Bernard Berenson, who constantly advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...