Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert furniture . . . That is the house of Yves Tanguy...
...Same Old Desert. Famed Surreal ist Painter Tanguy, 54, does not look like a medium?more like a country gentleman. Born in Paris at the turn of the century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes...
...water is delivered free with every rain, but not west of the 100th meridian, where the Great Plains begin. Westward of the line, rainfall rates drop from 100 inches a year to 20 or 10 or even less. Old maps labeled the area: "The Great American Desert (Uninhabitable)." But in irrigated areas the Great American Desert is blooming like a rose. Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers built the West's first modern irrigation project in 1847. Now, more than 25 million once-arid acres of the Western states produce an incredible profusion of fiber and grain, vegetables...
...Vietnamese army post, and the Communists got some useful martyrs. But though the triggers were pulled by Vietnamese, the real murderers were Communist agents provocateurs. Goaded and egged on by the Viet Minh, the demonstrators had besieged the post, alternately insulting, threatening and cajoling the Vietnamese soldiers to desert...
...DREAM AND THE DESERT (223 pp.) -Uys Krige-Houghton Mifflin...