Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painting began for Spruce in back-country Arkansas with local landscapes, rabbit hunters and deer. He went to a rural Arkansas school, did farm chores, picking apples and digging sweet potatoes, soon won a county competition with his first watercolors and oils. At 18 he went to the Dallas Art Institute on a scholarship. There he studied life drawing and painting, made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University...
...engineers, for example. Don't keep actors just sitting on their behinds and reading the play a la Stanislavsky. Dame Edith Evans says she has to move on her feet in order to think and react imaginatively. You might be able to take your cast off to a farm for six months to read Uncle Vanya or The Cherry Orchard, but you can't do that with Tunnel of Love...
...Howe, a devoted private enterpriser, saw nothing strange in fathering a national airline and a national radio-TV network. When Liberals adopted baby bonuses, old-age pensions, a $100 million Canada Council to encourage culture, Conservatives generally approved. Tory Diefenbaker, in fact, promises higher pensions and fatter farm subsidies...
...coming of Hitler made it impossible for the community to continue in Germany. In 1936, a year after Eberhard Arnold died, the 150-odd members of the Sannerz group (which by now included Swiss, Swedes and British, as well as Germans) found refuge on a farm in Wiltshire, England. World War II set most of them on the move again, when the community was boycotted because of its pacifist convictions and all those of German origin were threatened by internment. On a couple of months' notice, they set out for Paraguay-the only place they could find that...
...Agriculture Department asked Congress to eliminate the escalator clause in the support law before serious harm is done to the "longrun interests of our farm people." But last week influential farm-bloc Congressmen passed the word that there will be "no action this year." On commodity markets, cotton futures jumped $1 to $3.65 a bale in a single clay as cottonmen got set for higher prices and higher supports...