Word: tugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five Finger Exercise is one long parental tug of war, in which the children serve as the rope, and the incessant strife almost kills the family's life...
...inner struggle over Germany's conscience, Buber believes, is part of a climactic, worldwide tug of war between the forces of "human" man and "antihuman" man that transcends political boundaries. "The arming for the final battle of the Homo humanus against the Homo contrahumanus started in the depth" of the heart, Buber said years ago. "The battlefront is split into as many individual fronts as there are nations, and those who stand at one of the individual fronts do not know the others. Dawn still shrouds the struggle, but on its outcome depends whether the human race will eventually...
Family life at the Harringtons' is one long parental tug-of-war in which the children serve as the rope. The daughter (Annette Gorman), a sunny child just turning into her teens, seems able to stand the strain. But the son (Richard Beymer), an unstable boy in his first year at Harvard, starts to come apart as mother tries to get him away from father, and father tries to get him away from Harvard and into the furniture business...
...think of your trouble when the canopy opens, either can guarantee that. You'll be too joyed, as I was when I heard the "pop" and felt the firm tug of chute...
Three-Way Tug. To be true to nature, says Moore, the sculptor must probe, not merely reflect. But he must also be true to his materials, for wood, metal and stone are also a part of nature. Pebbles worn by the sea "show nature's way of working stone. Some of the pebbles I pick up have holes right through them." Moore gouges holes in his sculpture to "make it immediately more three-dimensional." The making of a sculpture becomes a three-way tug of war between the inner life of the subject, the rhythm of the material...