Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PABLO PICASSO-Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th. Jacqueline, the youthful model whom the Spanish master, 82, married three years ago, shows up often in these twelve oils (1955-63). Many may wonder, looking at the twisted caricatures he paints, why he bothers with a model at all. But he uses her to express the infinite changes and fundamental unity of the Picasso vision, turning her face every which way and examining it like the facets of a diamond. Through April...
...wonder is that there are not many more such deaths, for thousands of people are stung every year, some of them severely. In recent weeks, the sting rate got up to 400 or more a day in southeast Florida. Bulldozers buried a mass of man-of-war bodies daily, but so many more came in that some of the most popular beaches had to be closed...
...subsidized Cheever modestly, and Hazel took him to Provincetown to visit the famed Playhouse. He was already keeping the meticulous diary in which he accumulated the incidents, sights, smells and thoughts that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began to place an occasional story-earning him $25 in Story or little more than prestige in Hound & Horn. With such encouragement and support, he moved into New York's Greenwich Village, met Dos Passes...
...faith as a man. In one of the few statements he is prepared to make about his religion, which is Episcopal, he says little more than "I do not think it is too much to get down on my knees once a week to thank God for the coming wonder and glory of life...
...Life itself survives its detractors: "I think of some plumber who, waked by the rain, will smile at a vision of the world in which all the drains are miraculously cleaned and free . . . I think that the rain will wake some old lady, who will wonder if she has left her copy of Dombey and Son in the garden. Her shawl? Did she cover the chairs? And I know that the sound of the rain will wake some lovers, and that its sound will seem to be a part of that force that has thrust them into one another...