Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elegant and cadaverous, calm and withdrawn behind his beard. Graves does not sputter on reporters' griddles but speaks with sad, cold force. The intense romanticism of his paintings is absent from his public personality. Back in the U.S. for a brief visit last week, he explained that his Spring with Machine-Age Noises series was painted in anger before leaving the U.S. For him it represents the noise of "jets, chain saws, freight trains, trucks, bulldozers" sweeping over a grassy patch...
...tender of a $56 million Aswan Dam loan, it looked as if the dam might never be built. But the Russians came through with a promise of about $10 million. That offer has survived Nasser's later disenchantment with the Soviets (he has, for example, quietly withdrawn many Egyptian students from Russian universities, is sending 500 to study in the U.S.). At the Aswan ceremonies, after duly thanking "the country that agreed to help us," Nasser grandly dismissed past "threats and economic pressures'' from the West: "They afforded us an opportunity...
...wood "because it is warm and alive, lighter than stone and cheaper than bronze." Baskin gives his figures all the unadorned monumentality he can, tries to capture the most elemental aspects of man's life. Like the sculptured gods of Egypt and Sumeria, his figures are still, withdrawn, awesome. Yet they also express a sharply contrasting sense of the ordinary and everyday. He casts fat, simple, dull-seeming people in the roles of gods and heroes. Except for his owl, and the timelessness it symbolizes, the Seated Man might be riding a subway...
...hostages also to the hard line of the Israeli government, which ingathers hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world but has no space to take back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle 100,000 Arabs, but has since withdrawn the offer). The Palestinian Arabs are now wards of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Typical are the 32,235 refugees in UNRWA's Akbet Jaber Camp. a ragged sprawl of mud-brick huts roofed with reeds that is said to be Jordan's fourth largest city...