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Fast Learner. Namatjira's rise started when two Melbourne artists, Rex Battarbee and John Gardner, came to the bush on a painting trip and showed some of their watercolors to the Hermannsburg aborigines. Albert was fascinated. He brooded about the white man's wondrous colors, and eventually made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bushman to Brushman | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Now, the multiplicity of the human creation. Kierkegaarde, the great Dane, the greatest of the Danes, wrote in his journal in 1844 that he had an anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

Now, the multiplicity of the human creation. Kierkegaarde, the great Dane, the greatest of the Danes, wrote in his journal in 1844 that he had an anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

For Tokyo audiences, the Ainus only pretended to kill the bear and drink his blood. They shared the bill with a bebop band and a nicely undressed chorus. "Tokyo," murmured one bush-bearded, 74-year-old aborigine eying the chorus, "is the best part of Japan; Hokkaido is too far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Peace, It's Wonderful | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Biggest hit was a piece Goossens had brought with him, "a piece ... for Australia to be proud of." Concertgoers got a kick out of the program notes of John Antill's ballet suite Corroboree (aborigine for get-together): "Much usage of boomerang, spear and fire sticks." But its savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plum Pudding a-Plenty | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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