Word: labyrinths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jordan Marsh's Santa Claus was reached only by following a labyrinth of railings designed to keep a large crowd in an orderly line. Luckily, there was almost no line, and when Santa had taken care of three serious-faced youngsters. I asked him how he liked his job. "Why, it's the sweetest job I've ever had. Just sitting here all day. Sure, and it'd suit me foine if it lasted clear 'til June...
Trastevere is a boisterous, reeking, junglelike quarter that lies across a turbulent stretch of the Tiber river quite apart from most of Rome. The Trasteverini think the separation is fine. They like their dizzy labyrinth of alleyways, the Queen of Heaven jail and the little shop where the baker's daughter and the artist Raphael lived and lusted 400 years ago. They also delight in the dark, heavy-bosomed beauty of their women, the deftly handled stiletto and heroic quantities of dry, amber Frascati...
...Fulton pointed out that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf: "Out of the 200 D.P. camps personally visited...we found only one D.P. in jail...He had slapped his mother...
Sain feels that he is finally cashing in on the "years I was working for peanuts and learning how to pitch." For four years, beginning in 1936, he floundered in the lowest labyrinth of the minors-with Osceola, Ark. and Newport, Ark. It was the same story everywhere he played in those days: good curve, no fast ball...
...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...