Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
While the Administration could afford these questions when they were raised by other young people--students who were less judicious, perhaps, in their choice of adjectives--it cannot brush off this group of leaders. They represent graphically the plea of a generation that is disillusioned with this war and opposed to further escalation. Their statements are couched in the balanced rhetoric and wording bureaucrats will understand. They ooze the qualities which policy-makers and politicians admire: reasonableness, moderation, responsibility, earnestness--and all the rest...
...thus no single teacher would have any feedback on the performance of the one or two pupils from her class likely to be tested. This, Carnegie contends, means that no "invidious comparisons" would result, and no teacher would be under pressure to "teach for the tests." But the broad-brush group results could provide some facts which might help resolve the endless arguments on how well, or poorly, the schools are doing...
...result, much that was Elsheimer's does not carry his name. But art historians have definitely identified many of his works through his distinctive style and meticulous brush strokes. With the long-overdue showing in Frankfurt, Elsheimer should regain some of the high reputation that he held among his contemporaries...
Pascin perfumed his canvases with a gently colored atmosphere. Trying to strike a sort of balance between innocence and enticement, Pascin veiled his women, like Salomes six times removed, in scanty teddies that turned to smoke under his brush...