Word: vanishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicklaus is the slowest player I've ever seen," Sarazen, a two-time Open champ (1922, 1932), told a group of scholarship-winning caddies in Boston. "Slow play becomes a disease. My most vivid memories of slow players are that they vanish quickly from the scene." Sarazen said that he and an 80-year-old partner can still go 18 holes in 2½ hours; Nicklaus has been known to take a good deal longer...
...Mondays, when De Gaulle returns to Paris from Colombey, he seems regretful and half inclined to retire from politics. But in the pace of Paris, all such thoughts soon vanish-until the peace and quiet of another weekend beckons. He remains a moody, introverted man who keeps his own counsel. Last year De Gaulle confided to U.S. President John Kennedy the principle that has always guided his own conduct: "And now, Monsieur le President and cher ami, I say this. Listen only to yourself...
...Department and the Registrar's Office, could all code data about students into the same tapes used for House assignments--since the files of these offices in many respects duplicate each other. Everyone could use the same file, the memory section of a computer. Needless duplication might in addition vanish from the famous jungle of the registration process; registrants would fill out one card rather than eight...
...associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady at My Place, done in 1961. The tiresome shibboleths of the gratuitously embattled art world vanish: the figurative and abstract paintings consort like long-time companions, and the brilliant assembly proves that no school has a monopoly on beauty. Even the most familiar artists brim with youth and vigor in this collection...
...haunts me so much I can't let him go"), he has been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn and dislocated figures often seem about to vanish or disintegrate. In a Bacon painting, the body is temporary; only the torment remains...