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...light tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
...immediately bought her a big charcoal-broiled steak. There was a wild, backwoods look about him. He seldom wore socks and liked to take his shoes off when he ate; he enjoyed wiggling his enormous toes and grinding ice cubes between his gargantuan molars. As time wore on, he sometimes borrowed money from her. But she loved him madly anyhow. She swore they had lived as husband and wife...
...Patient. With crushed flowers, powdered rock, pollen, charcoal and corn meal, the Navajos invented a highly abstract way of picturing their even more abstract ideas of the forces that move nature. Their paintings, which their underprivileged, impoverished descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings...
...children attend Sunday School," he said enthusiastically, sitting on the crate that he uses for a chair and warming his slender hands over a tiny charcoal brazier. "In the spring I hope to start a day school. I hope also ... to make plans to improve their condition. It is too difficult to change their occupation at once, for they are too poor...
...Ramdas set fire to the ghi-soaked wood with the charcoal he had carried, smoldering, all the way from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...