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...room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just 100 yards from their father's house. Amid the wailing of friends and neighbors, the police announced the cause of death: suicide...
From the start, conservative Philadelphia businessmen admired classic models (later covered by fig leaves); artists wanted their nature in the raw. In 1795 Artist Peale had struck the first blow for the artists, heroically stripped to the skin when an overmodest baker, hired as a model, refused to take off his breeches. But even with Peale's influence, a life class was not put in the academy's curriculum until 1812. Nudity also ended the academy's Golden Age, the decade 1876-86, when the school was dominated by Thomas Eakins. He revolutionized art teaching, insisted that...
...Wrote Washington in reply: "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. [In this nation] everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid...
Last week no less a diplomat than Secretary of State John Foster Dulles traveled to Seattle to acknowledge Ro-tary's influence. "You are here," he said, "because you share ideals in common." Tall, short, thin, fat, balding or bearded, none of the Rotarians seemed to care a fig for political hairsplitting. There were no thundering denunciations from the speaker's platform, no thinly veiled polit ical polemics, no sweeping resolutions. "We do not believe," said Rotary International Secretary George Means, "in resoluting about anything unless we can do something about...
Berlin-born Karl Zerbe, who dislikes oils, has painted with egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical acclaim. But in 1949, things began to go wrong. Zerbe started suffering from asthma, found that he was allergic to beeswax...