Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...director of the American Academy in Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward Pompeii, nearly all of Herculaneum's 5,000 inhabitants were able to flee before the wall...
...deep as death's yet pools are/her eyes") which has some interest but some impossible tin-ear cacaphony ("and then more than ever i know of"). His other effort, "The Deed," is doggeral. The rhythm of its short rimed phrases suggests Bob Dylan's fine song "Like a Rolling Stone," but comparison insults Dylan. Ament's phrases are all empty rime-tags...
Such cards emerge from brainstorming sessions that a special staff of American Greetings' artists and editors hold at their offices in a onetime airplane plant in Cleveland. Stone, whose regular staff of 200 creative people is much more dignified, gives his Hi Brows free rein. They include an ex-nightclub comedian, a onetime disk jockey who likes to blow on trumpet mouthpieces while he creates, and an astrologer who owns the largest collection of Batman comic books in Ohio; their office decor ranges from a sculptured bust with a leather flying helmet on it to a tape recorder...
Christmas Jingle. Elsewhere, creativity is much more subdued and businesslike. Last week Stone's 800 salesmen were calling on the drugstores, supermarkets and discount stores in which American places most of its cards to make certain that they are ready for the biggest single rush of the year. Christmas accounts for half of all greeting-card sales (followed by Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day); well-wishers this year will purchase 7 billion cards altogether. Most buyers like their art and inspiration messages solemn and simple...