Word: swims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cubism, however, was queen of art at the time; Chagall, who only knew Picasso casually, was out of the swim. His paintings at the Salon des Indépendants drew little acclaim and no money. Today, his paintings of 1910-14 are the most valuable and the most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding...
...murderers swim forever in a river of blood; the flatterers wallow in human excrement; the sowers of discord are split up the middle and stagger through eternity with their entrails hanging out. From time to time, with the brutality characteristic of his age, Dante personally assists their torment -he kicks one sinner in the face and sadistically rips out a fistful of his hair. More sympathetic episodes are artfully interspersed. In the second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern...
...Franciscans have a somewhat different problem. The cold fact of the matter is that their bordering sea is too cold to swim in, even in summer. They have learned to compensate. They go away, mostly to the Lake Tahoe area, where the water is even colder, but the surrounding scenery is more spectacular and the swimming pools are heated. Besides, how do you see your friends during the summer unless you go to Lake Tahoe? The lake is great for sailing, and the cocktail-party circuit is intense. After the healthy activities of the day, the energetic Lake Tahoeist...
Then there is the mako, probably the flashiest fighting fish in the sea. A snaggle-toothed bruiser (record: 1,000 Ibs.) that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death...
...Essex Country Club will be the starting point for today's activities. Members, their wives, and eldest children will play golf and tennis, swim and tour the North Shore during the morning, and then polish off the traditional lobster luncheon...