Word: woolens
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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,/ Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens / These are a few of my favorite things...
...decided to put a pair of gloves on some poor fellow's hands just as my father had slipped free Danish rolls into customers' bags." Greenberg was then teaching sixth grade in a Brooklyn public school, and the following year, despite his modest salary, he bought 72 pairs of woolen gloves, took them to the Bowery, and handed them out (very timidly, he admits) to the destitute and the derelict. Why 72? Because 18 is the Hebrew symbol for life, and "four times life...
...Manhattan's Bowery, long the haunt of the down-and-outs and the lost- weekenders, and wandering the gritty neighborhood looking for "the old, the reticent and the shy." When he finds one, like the old man on the bench, he dangles a pair of gray or maroon woolen gloves and says, "Take them, please. They're free. They're a gift. No strings attached." Then he shakes a trembling hand. This simple act of communion, says Greenberg, "will almost invariably bring a smile of acknowledgment. You can tell the handshake is in earnest because they press your fingers...
...trois who loathed his given name of George because he shared it with both a pathetic father and the self-styled musical genius who became his mother's lover. An eccentric who attributed ill health and body odor to cotton and linen clothing and advocated a wardrobe of unbleached woolen garments. A purported avatar of women's liberation who called himself a "philanderer" and preferred married women for romance. A lectern-thumping socialist who prided himself on his aristocratic if fallen lineage and chronicled protest rallies from the sidelines with amused disdain. A novelist whose books were rejected as unpublishable...
Zurbaran's version comes right from the rhetorical heart of the Counter- Reformation. Dark, admonitory and raw, it seems overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping...