Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without exception, the stories in this collection unspool into a world of loneliness, yearning and blood. Auto crashes seem to be fatefully programmed into the character of the victims. A girl imagines the Southwest as an optical illusion of sunshine and sand divided by highways. The designs of small animals are mashed into the hot roadway, "run over again and again by big trucks and retired people seeing America...
Even before Stieglitz died in 1946, his wife had quit New York to spend the summer months in seclusion in the Southwest. Since then, she has been known as America's "leading woman artist"-a boldly condescending phrase-and largely dismissed as irrelevant by generations weaned on Pollock and Kline. To younger painters, her articulate images of mountain, bone and desert looked merely provincial. The milk train of history, having stopped at Tenth Street to pick up the Abstract Expressionists, could not be expected to halt at so remote a siding as Abiquiu, N. Mex. But if it could...
...step, and try to fix the precise instant at which the enchanted became the ordinary. No writer solves the puzzle, which may account for its continued fascination. Novelist Paul Horgan might almost be playing with another man's board and pieces: a small dusty town in the Southwest; a sensitive young narrator who will live to be a writer; the narrator's friend, an athlete who falls to his death from the town's water tower; a rich widow who befriends the narrator and sends him to college; the town banker, the town's batty spinster...
...lettuce growers (almost all except United Fruit) to recognize the farm workers' union, headed by Caesar Chavez. This week 21 farm workers are coming to Boston to continue the boycott of S. S. Pierce products and to help organize a boycott of all non-union lettuce coming from the Southwest, Ryan said...
...accept, as Philip Curtis does, that human folly and wisdom alike lead only to death, and still not give way to despair, but to the making of lovely and magic pictures, is the triumph of one human spirit." The show has toured the major art centers of the Southwest, next week opens at Manhattan's Coe Kerr gallery...