Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working under the supervision of a dean of labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least...
...became an outspoken apostle of the Yankee square dance, of birth control (said he after the birth of his fourth child: "It is not easy to practice what you preach"), and of the Crown Prince's right to marry as he chooses ("The Crown Prince is like a bird in a cage. If he prefers a love marriage, it should be recognized"). Meanwhile, he also became a recognized authority on the ancient Orient. For such a man, it seemed perfectly natural to sign up to teach at the Tokyo Women's College at $6.40 a month...
...father in the mud to have a firsthand knowledge of the ordeal of a Russian Jew. In The Story of My Dovecot, Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face: "The guts of the crushed bird trickled down from my temple . . . A piece of string...
...subject matter, Ecuador, is all his own. He sees it as a tragic land, where Indians, mestizos and Negroes struggle side by side, half-blind to their own and each other's needs. Guayasamin's vision sometimes soars high above the country, as in his turbulent bird's-eye view of Quito (see color page). More often it swoops down for an agonizingly close look at a funeral, a prison, a prostitute. His occasional canvases of embracing lovers or mothers with their children show a growing tenderness and ability to convey the smooth with the rough...
...Great Adventure (Sucksdorff; Louis de Rochemont Associates). A pool in the forest waits in stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...