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...poem's final stanzas the accusations cease, and Heaney, like many another Irish artist, confronts the shade of James Joyce and his own destiny. The great Irish exile warns Heaney to forget his preoccupation with the past: "That subject people stuff is a cod's game/ in- fantile, like your peasant pilgrimage . . . it's time to swim/ out on your own and fill the element/ with signatures on your own frequency...
Were we the wrong shade of black...
...characteristics of a camera's-eye view, including the out-of-focus background and prismatic light blurs, but the effect is different from photos and even more so from painted murals. The weaving process, with its interlaced wefts and warps, gives the fabric a subtle play of light and shade and adds the fascination of texture. Hernmarck's tapestries thus add warmth, a reminder of nature, to the sometimes chill corporate setting, enhancing the architecture rather than merely decorating...
Svetlana's hostility was viewed a shade differently by her new brother-in- law, S.I. Hayakawa, who is married to Wes Peters' sister. "She and Mrs. Wright were like two empresses in the same empire," the semanticist and former U.S. Senator recollects. Overpowered, Svetlana tried to persuade Peters to leave Taliesin West, where he had worked since 1932 as Wright's disciple and chosen successor. Peters temporized, and after 20 months of marriage, Svetlana stormed out, cursing Mrs. Wright and all that she represented with a wrath that recalled Stalin's. Taliesin West, "with all its horrible modern architecture," Svetlana...
...sponsor. In appearance, it recalls a Victorian men's club, with a generous use of mahogany and brass, both in the spacious lobbies and within its two auditoriums. The seats--between 1,815 and 2,000 in the larger, depending on the configuration of the stage--are a warm shade called terra cotta, and a blue patterned carpet covers most of the floors. Given the prevailing climate in Minnesota during the concert season, the cozy warmth conveyed by the materials is not misplaced...