Word: daedalus
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They started to cut Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon (valued at $450,000) and Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icarus from their frames and then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For one thing, they had time to pilfer $40 from a cashbox, proving their main interest to be monetary. For another, they left a Tintoretto, another Renoir and a Degas untouched...
Sociologists customarily stalk elephantine generalities in exotic latitudes-from the South Seas to the cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become...
Picasso's mural for UNESCO as shown in TIME is an affront to intelligence. I've known the Daedalus and Icarus legend since I was 14 years old, but this hodgepodge gives no clue to it-with or without Picasso's explanation. Pablo burnt his wings on this...
Centaurs & Bacon. To this day every literate soul in the Western world knows the stories Ovid told, more or less in the way he told them. The titles evoke the tales: Daedalus and I cants, The Story of Pygmalion, Orpheus and Eurydice...
Story of Midas, Baucis and Philemon, The Invasion of Troy and dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into wings for the fateful flight from Crete, his playful son Icarus...