Word: feasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polynesian paradise of Tahiti, le grand tourist really let go. Aboard a navy cutter in Papeete Bay, De Gaulle perched his spectacles on his ample nose as outrigger canoes bearing lovely Polynesian girls passed in review. At a tamaaraa, the traditional Tahitian feast, the general sampled all the specialties: spinach with pork from earthen ovens, breadfruit, cooked bananas in coconut cream sauce. Everywhere, he plunged with a balance of glee and gravity into the smiling crowds shaking hands, and more than once was draped with leis and bussed by dusky native beauties in return...
...youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order to get food. But when Chu's forces joined up with the neighboring Red bands of a guerrilla leader named Mao Tse-tung, Lin was exposed to a guerrilla technique that was later to make Mao famous...
...West, Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, is a name meaningful chiefly to crossword-puzzle addicts and readers of Nietzsche. To the 100,000 Parsis of India who last week celebrated their New Year, the most sacred feast on their calendar, Zoroaster is still the one great prophet, the man who gave them their monotheistic faith in the god Ahura Mazda...
Brooding Evil, Deep Wisdom. To celebrate his permanent feast of images, ranging over a span of 40 years, a display of 337 of his photographs- opened last week in the Exhibition Center of the Time and Life Building in Manhattan. Derived in large part from his 1,728 assignments for LIFE in the past 30 years, the record astonishes both by its variety-How could any man have been in so many crucial places?-and its perception. The marvel is finally not the Leica that Eisenstaedt used, but the personal eye behind the shutter...
Today, 300 years after his death, a recent critical biography -by the U.S.'s most venerable art historian, Walter Friedlaender, 93, sums up Poussin's continuing appeal. One conclusion is that his frankly intellectual art is just as much a visible feast as it is brain food...