Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resemblance to U.S. art ended in one group which turned out to be the hit of the show; eleven primitive charcoal and clay drawings on eucalyptus bark, done, not by Australia's high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit...
Said Curtis Bush '43, president of the newly-formed organization last night, "Lots of fellows regularly go forty or fifty miles just because they like barn dancing...
...last week pleaded two scholars at a conference of educators and theologians at Columbia University. They were Professor Douglas Bush of Harvard and Author Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England...
Said Professor Bush: "The fundamental aim of traditional education was religious, ethical, and civic . . . . The aim and the justification of literature have always been, and must be, the ennobling and enrichment of the whole being. Greek boys were brought up on Homer, because Homer was a guide to life . . . . Roman boys studied Virgil . . . . for the same reason . . . . We should hate to guess the proportion of our students who are moved as Sir Philip Sidney was moved by the heroic example of Aeneas . . . ." Author Brooks decried the "baby talk" of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Said he: "The great themes...
Four days later, Francisco Arvallo, a peddler, driving along the same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead...