Word: worke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hero. None of that cold-eyed passion for historical reality carried over in his pupils' work. Ingres inherited his cold eye, but turned it on unimaginable odalisques and comfortable patrons. His other illustrious pupil, Antoine-Jean Gros, almost reversed the master by ushering in a new school of romantic pageantry. Like David, Gros became caught up in the whirlwind of contemporary politics. Through Josephine, he met Bonaparte in 1796, was given a role in the French army's confiscation of Italian art treasures, then taken into Napoleon's entourage...
Often the sessions are hard work. Mrs. Georgia Harris, whose husband had been a Navy pilot, was emotionally blocked until she participated in a 14-hour marathon session. "When I left it," she recalls, "I felt like somebody had just peeled all the skin off my body. Everything was open." No attempt is made to curtail or suppress normal mourning. As they progress, the widows begin to confront the emotionally exhausting problem of rebuilding their social and sexual lives. At first, most are unable to consider remarrying, but they eventually come to see themselves as available single women, although with...
Imagine a society in which the work week seldom exceeds 19 hours, material wealth is considered a burden, and no one is much richer than anyone else. The trespasser is unknown, there are no clear-cut property lines, merely undefined boundaries that stand open to visitors-who are welcomed with refreshment. Unemployment is high there, sometimes reaching 40%-not because the society is shiftless, but because it believes that only the able-bodied should work, and then no more than necessary. Food is abundant and easily gathered. The people are comfortable, peaceable, happy and secure...
...play is a malicious sexual satire about a headmaster who seduces the mistress of the local political chairman. But Kundera gives the work countless double meanings aimed at conformists, informers, party bureaucracy and jargon, the security police and the Russian occupation. Played with snap and brass by a young experimental company, Ptakovina keeps audiences constantly off balance with laughter. But the most resounding applause comes without a laugh when the headmaster tells his own fiancee that he hasn't the heart to be a hypocrite any longer; that "I've lost my second face." "Better find it again...
...hour work day, Heikal heads home to a luxurious Cairo apartment to relax with his wife and three sons. His very presence makes the apartment building a coveted address because, says a Cairo diplomat, "everything works-or else." His comfortable existence is marred only by a thin shadow of danger. His outspokenness (some call it arrogance) has earned him enemies, and his survival-like his power-rests with a single man. "If Nasser ever goes," says one well-placed Egyptian, "Heikal had better be on the next plane out of the country...