Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good friends Picasso, Leger and Braque he perceived that he "was, not going to be first-rate," so he quit art with the argument that he "couldn't stand second- rate painting." Just before he died, Murphy learned that his friend MacLeish had given his 1927 Wasp and Pear to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Murphy was greatly pleased; he had not known when he stopped painting that his art would ultimately help to link the bewildering present with the more settled past...
...opening scene is a country house where Edward, an essayist, and Flora, his wife, are having breakfast. After desultory chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory...
...Wasp Power. For the generation of Americans that grew up hi-ho-ing with Silver, the show's theme music, the galloping part of the William Tell Overture, will always be more Ranger than Rossini. And Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee inevitably conjures up visions of Brit Reed, alias the Green Hornet, who when adventure-bound was trailed by a string orchestra playing his tune. Do-Gooder Brit also had the only automobile on radio that ran on wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes...
...seems to enjoy it all immensely is old John Diefenbaker, the ex-Prime Minister who suffered the same wasp-stinging from Pearson and now leads the Conservative opposition. When Diefenbaker was under attack, there were major issues at stake such as Canada's nuclear commitment to the U.S. Now the rough and tumble in the House of Commons often sounds more like a schoolyard squabble. Diefenbaker makes the most of it to be devil Pearson and ridicule him before the splinter parties on which he depends for support...
...mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child alone at play. It is sad when he pulls the wings off a wasp. It is even sadder when the wasp stings him and he howls against the fates...