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...apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role, this anthropological ges ture across a pit of entities which, in a different age, would have been called demons. Will Castaneda become the Dr. Faustus of Malibu Beach, attended by Mephistopheles in a sombrero? Stay tuned in for the next episode. In the meantime, his books have made it hard for readers ever to use the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...turned the corner into abstraction. Instead, his enterprise was to put flesh on the bones of Cubist structure, to give it the sensuousness of the world of objects, returning to the eye and hand a space which, though fictional, can be explored in real detail. "There is in na ture," he said later, "a tactile, I almost mean 'manual' space." The Mantel piece, 1922, is an example of this pro cess. At first one recognizes its elements - the crumpled guitar, the bottle, the grapes, the brown veined marble of the consoles and mantel top - as signs that "stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Objects as Poetics | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...touch with his own dark spirituality? Here, as in Sam Peckinpah's recent Straw Dogs - another, artistically less successful movie about a test - the director's prodigious skill cannot conceal a rather shabby and cynical intellectual construct. In Deliver ance, man must become one with na ture in order to survive. But for Boorman and Dickey, becoming one apparently means becoming bestial. Deliverance comes not through a knowledge of nature's most primitive and powerful forces but through a capitulation to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...Hampshire Democrat Thomas J. McIntyre reported a telephone con- versation with a "highly placed source in Vienna [who] made it very clear to me that the success of the SALT negotiations rests almost exclusively on our not remaining static in our ABM pos ture." Just before the vote, Republican Whip Robert Griffin bore down hard er on the issue: "If this amendment should carry and if the SALT talks should thereafter collapse, I would not want to be in the position of those who will vote today against the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Having It Both Ways | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

WITHOUT fanfare or advance publicity, R?? Loewinsohn became the first poet in Harvard?? history to truck into Sanders Theatre on a motorcycle. Kevin Starr called the gesture "apocalyptic??? Loewinsohn called it "an objectification of his ???ture" (on Duncan and Ginsberg for Starr's Wester??? Lit. course). Possibly, the motorcycle entry spea??? as well for Loewinsohn's own poetry...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Meat Air | 5/1/1970 | See Source »

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