Word: spider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through a Glass Darkly. A wise and warm and frightening picture in which Ingmar Bergman tells the story of a young woman (Harriet Andersson) who looks through a crack in the wall that limits reason from unreason and on the other side sees God-an enormous spider...
Presenting himself as proof that the universe is foul, Burroughs achieves the somewhat irrelevant honesty of hysteria as he writes of a malevolent world of users and pushers, of a mad conspiracy of spider-eyed manipulators who sell each other "adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale antivenom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm...
Almost all of the seminars will have assigned readings. Grossman will have his students reading Goethe's Faust, Part I, Gotthelf's Black Spider, and Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan. Af- fred B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature, will assign various Bible readings for his seminar, "Myth and Oral Tradition in the Bible," in order to promote "informal but informed discussion...
Those who served with him in the Mediterranean-from the swabbies on up-testify to the excellence of his service with the Sixth Fleet. With 60 ships, 200 planes and 30,000 men, Anderson spider-webbed the Mediterranean, keeping watch on trouble spots and dogging Soviet "trawlers." He also worked as a diplomat, became friendly with European leaders who came to regard him as a representative of U.S. policy in the region...
Among the more cryptic of these epigrams are the following: "A hyena does not drive a cow," and "A spider does not sit that people may teach it to speak through the nose...