Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign affairs Ben Bella has given up the impractical vision of a united Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco). But as head of the only African nation so far to have fought a long, bloody war, if not to victory in the field, at least to independence, he seems to dream of leading all Africa-although there is considerable doubt as to how his near-bankrupt country could afford such a role. Still playing the revolutionary, Ben Bella has set up a training camp for 1,000 Angolan guerrillas who hope to drive the Portuguese colonialists from their homeland...
Almost from the start, the Copts rejected the Hellenic way of doing things. Their early life-size statues and full-face portraits are near copies of Greek models, but the cold formality is muted with familiar gestures and folk costumes. As the flight to the desert progressed, their vision became more provincial, and the classicism was discarded. Their sculpture grew smaller and more personal, painting became fragmentary instead of monumental. There is a childlike naivete in the coy games of god and goddess, the paper-doll stare of a saint, the back-patting of Christ and a monk (see color...
...primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...
...voting public should look long and hard at Senator Goldwater [July 26]. It is obvious that the top job should go to a man with his conservative vision. After all, the major issue in the operation of our Federal Government is fiscal sanity versus Harvard economics. Because of this, the Republican Party should lean to the conservative side and dare to be different. A choice between Jack and Rocky, come Election Day, would be like flipping a coin with two heads...
Over a bottle of sour mash with Houseboy Paco, McCanless succumbs to a vision. That ventilated cow out in the barn, Old Blue-she is actually a vast, milling herd of white-faced steers. Like a latter-day Don Quixote, McCanless lays out his inspired plan to Paco: "We grass-fatten the herd on the trail, and then we sell it at top market. And when it's all over . . . we'll buy each of us a scarlet sweetheart and honky-tonk our tails...