Word: veils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most painful experience which man can undergo is to strip off veil after veil of obscuring matter and finally encounter what Yeats called "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart." But to achieve the "wholeness" of which Brother Antoninus speaks, this experience is essential. This is why he writes poetry; it forces him to probe the nature of his heart: "It is painful, but there will be a catharsis, a healing, and an appeasement...
...also learned, and taught other artists, how to impress the forms of textiles and other materials upon the plate to provide textural effects. He devised techniques for softening outlines, reproducing the fluffiness of a cloud, the delicacy of a veil, a swirl of movement as in his Tarantella. His discoveries and inventions opened up what was virtually a new realm of art: he showed that etching need not be merely a method of reproducing a drawing but an independent art form in itself, capable of effects that brushes or crayons could not achieve...
...eyes veil when he goes home to the young woman he is living with. She is charming and she loves him, but he thinks only of the little girl. When the young woman finds out who her rival is, she is appalled. Her lover is a sick man, a pilot who crashed in Indo-China and has lived in limbo ever since, his memory gone and his imagination prey to fearful fancies...
...America now that the poor dears are absolutely battered by waves of instructions. That's why when I speak to them, they seem to feel they're getting the God's honest truth. And they ask the most extraordinary questions: 'When do you wear a veil?' I tell them, 'It depends on what you've been doing the night before.' Seriously, I tell them mainly to relax. It's basically your attitude coming into a room that really counts...
...Schwarz wants to create controversy by affecting a veil of pretentious ignorance, he is to be saluted on his success. If however, his review is earnestly written, I am led only to think, "It seems he can't be serious, but he is." Louis Natenshen...