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...oscilllations of the suspended head came to a halt, I realized that the interview was over. I thanked Professor Quaeritor, and upon leaving he rubbed his spider, "Don't call me Quaeritor, the natives...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Heart of Darkness | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

Pollock's painting, said the Times, is "almost an act of spiritual brinkmanship . . . Like Pope's spider, he feels along the line." The Sunday Times's John Russell, who had scoffed at Pollock in the past, now praised "the great pounding rhythms which batter their way across the 18-ft. canvases, never for a moment out of control." Pollock was much more than "Drool School," conceded the Manchester Guardian. "Rich and splendid design of this quality and on this scale is infinitely rare." The Observer allowed that "the crude impression of a dotty exhibitionist spilling paint aimlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Posh Pollock | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Crompton, who has proved once again that a true passion-even a love of man for insect-is the substance of literature. Displaying a talent that recalls Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Apiarist Crompton has in the past written engagingly on the ant, the hunting wasp and the spider. But evidently the bee is his true poetic faith-and the bee in his bonnet is as good as a sonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bee Around Us | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named Snowball, and a dark, unhousebroken Capuchin named Herman can dose a man with strange scents as the weeks pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...doubly angry because mortal Arachne dared to weave scenes of the scandalous loves of the gods (Rubens' sketch shows a scene from the Rape of Europa). Athena ripped the design to shreds, turned on Arachne, who was trying to hang herself in despair, and metamorphosed her into a spider (thus giving spiders their zoological classification: Arachnida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Picture in the Picture | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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