Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seldom read these days in his own country. A former prison camp inmate whose evocative historical novels have dealt bluntly with the repressions of the Stalin era, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is excluded from official Moscow literary circles. He lives on the outskirts of the ancient city of Ryazan under the shadow of a Soviet campaign to discredit him. Though his major works (The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) are widely read abroad, they have never been published in Russia. Nor have any of his short stories appeared in the Soviet Union during the past three years. Last week the Soviets...
...Harvard procedure says nothing about identification of students. Wilson said that while identification by a dean is not "proof beyond a shadow of a doubt" of a student's guilt, such a produre might conceivably be used at Harvard because the resulting suspension is only temporary and because, "University discipline uses the standards not of criminal but of civil procedure, where all you have to show is 'a preponderance of evidence...
...dimly lighted room of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts a lady pointed her glove at two almost identical prints of a round faced artist sitting near a window. "Can you see the difference?" she asked the boy standing next to her. And showed him where a shadow of tightly woven lines crept over the side of the face in one print, softening the mouth and eyes. This conversation startled the carpeted gallery out of its silence. Businessmen, students and more ladies offered advice in distinguishing the difference between other apparently similar prints, exhibited around the room...
...described people the way we see them-all ages and sorts-and our eyes trust his images. Often unable to articulate his feeling in a line, he immersed a scene in a shadow. Some of the prints, like "The Adoration of the Shepherds: A Night Piece," are almost completely black. A box-like lamp, held by a shepherd sends light shimmering through the mesh of lines on the surface of the paper. Only the faces glow from the mysterious night in the stable. The artist expressed the wonder of the people present by unifying them in darkness...
...invisible . . . And Exempt. Immunity has been granted to me, for I do not lose my cool. Polarity is selected at will, for I am not ionized and I possess not violence. Call me inert and featureless but Beware, I am the Shadow, free to cloud men's minds. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? I am the Dracula, look into...