Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word about the painting that appears in the photograph accompanying the article: Henry Koerner's picture showing me standing next to a bullfighter who is also a pagan priest is entitled The Sacrifice. I am depicted in the crimson robes of a Harvard doctor holding the Torah. Next to me stands the bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus...
...quiet part of the mid-afternoon that bartenders call the "Angelus" or the "Holy Hour," there were only a few in McNulty & Grogan's. Grogan was standing at the far end of the bar nursing his cup of Darjeeling tea. "My God," he said, "those Chinese. They got one word for two words...
...word high-pitched and it means newspaper; say it low-pitched an' it means cabbage. My God, jeveh heah of such a language...
...muttered it again, "one word, it means two things." Grogan is an interesting man. Every Sunday morning he goes to early Mass at the Arch Street Shrine downtown, then he buys the Sunday papers and goes to the Statler-Hilton Hungry Pilgrim Restaurant for breakfast. He claims that one Sunday the papers were so big that he had to stay for lunch at the Statler before he could finish the papers. On Sunday afternoons he goes up to the Boston Public Library in Copley Square and reads...
Harper's gambles most of its March issue on the hope that readers will be fascinated by Norman Mailer's 90,000-word reflections on the follies of last fall's Washington Peace March. Mailer flails himself as much as he does other Mailerian targets-Nazis, cancer, L.B.J., newspapers, and TIME. Indeed, Mailer begins by fully quoting TIME'S Oct. 27 account of his performance on the stage of Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer...