Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver. He also did odd jobs for the Lutheran mission at tiny (pop. 242) Hermannsburg, 1,300 miles northwest of Sydney. The missionaries paid him in clothes and rations of European food, with which Albert supplemented the native "bush tucker" of kangaroo meat, honey ants and fat grubs...
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 a proposition: he would serve Battarbee as camel boy if Battarbee would teach him to paint. Battarbee agreed, supplied Albert with brushes and paints, and gave him a few pointers on color. Two weeks later, as Battarbee recalls, "Albert brought along a painting ... I immediately saw his talent. Here...
LONDON'S Royal Academy, like most academies, tends toward the safe, the sure and the mediocre. Yet it boasts one member of genius in brash, bush-bearded old Augustus John. Last week the academy opened a dazzling retrospective of John's lifework, including some 230 portraits. The display amply documented the fact that John, at 76, still upholds a vigorous and perceptive tradition of portraiture...
Last week the Carnegie Corporation granted $50,000 for a fresh approach to studying the universe. Urged on by Dr. Vannevar Bush of the Carnegie Institution, scientists will try to make telescopes work better without getting bigger...
...Bush and his collaborators have various plans for getting around this difficulty. Perhaps, they think, the electrons from the sensitive metal could be "stored" on a surface that gives off no gases. Later they could be released, either to impress a strong image on a photographic plate, or to be scanned and displayed on a screen after the manner of television. The scanning system would not only yield a much stronger image with the same amount of light, it might even eliminate the fogging due to sky shine...