Word: swans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, Dali was exhibiting one he had not yet mastered. He had spent only three months on it so far, and he figured it would need another four. The "masterpiece-in-progress" was an expert, academic picture of his wife Gala, sitting naked on the air, with a swan...
...Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear new architectures and rocks dans...
...Dali shows us the hierarchized libidinous emotion, suspended and as though hanging in midair, in accordance with the modern 'nothing touches' theory of intra-atomic physics. Leda does not touch the swan; Leda does not touch the pedestal; the pedestal does not touch the base; the base does not touch the sea; the sea does not touch the shore...
...night while everybody is watching Karin dance Swan Lake, Margaret pulls a lever to put out all the lights. This winsome prank opens a trapdoor onstage instead. Karin falls through and injures herself so badly that she can never dance again. How Margaret suffers! But at last she confesses and Karin forgives her, partly because "she's a strange child," partly because "today is today...
...student activities center was unanimously recommended as a Harvard World War II memorial by the Council Extra-Curricular Activities Committee, in a report released yesterday by Thaxter Swan '45, committee chairman...