Word: womb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gareth must also fight a subtler kind of slavery. Before he can enter the jet, he must wrench himself from the womb of place. To be reborn, he must be unborn. He must blot out the streets and scents of Ballybeg. He must stop his ears against the voices of friends and their loutish camaraderie. He must stiffen in the embrace of the drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person...
...excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," becomes who "didst humble thyself to be born of a virgin...
...Georgette and his dog Lou-Lou, succeeded as the perfect straight man of surrealism. "The thought expressed in my work is absolute," he said. "It can't be interpreted. In my painting, a bird is a bird. And a bottle is a bottle, not a symbol of a womb." All of which inspired critics to find his work an antecedent of pop art. The painting is so meticulous, the objects themselves so ordinary yet so extraordinarily juxtaposed that Magritte obviously means to convey an apparently clear vision in which the illogical becomes magically super-logical...
...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. An educated North American Indian, who for years has fought a losing fight with the white man's values, goes native again among the South American Indians, and in the green womb of the Amazon finds a spiritual rebirth...
...Under the Mountain Wall, The Cloud Forest) about his expeditions there. Now at last the scientist and the artist have collaborated to achieve a large and powerful novel that is simultaneously a tale of violent adventure and a parable in which modern man finds religious rebirth in the green womb of nature...