Word: fisherfolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laura Knight took over her mother's art classes in Nottingham, blackening her toes so that the holes in her shoes would go unnoticed. At 25, she was living in Staithes, a fishing village on the Yorkshire coast, painting the grinding poverty and bold courage of North Sea fisherfolk. In her thirties and forties she was off traveling with the circus, camping with gypsies, setting up easels in the ring at Blackfriars, hanging over the stalls in Covent Garden, sleeping under tent flaps, recording on canvas her impressions of the entertainment world. At 51 she was named Dame Commander...
...Japanese seaside village of Kawana, hell-for-celluloid Director John Huston was about to shoot a panoramic movie scene encompassing some 350 fisherfolk extras, all decked out in elaborate 19th century samurai costumes, tunics, kimonos and big wigs. Suddenly a voice bellowed in Japanese over the village's loudspeaker: "Dolphins!" Departing radically from the script, the male extras quickly put to sea in Huston's rented sampans while the women took off their film kimonos and excitedly awaited the return of their men. Net catch for the inscrutable villagers: 270 dolphins worth $3,500 in the seafood market...
...interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which ranged from starkly etched studies of Italian peasants and fisherfolk to whimsical mockery of intellectuals and contemporary ideologies, rank him high among Italy's contemporary authors...
...personal, and it invariably fades a little in the vase of translation. The Sound of Waves does not wholly escape this fate, but its 31-year-old author, Yukio Mishima, is a spare-time weight lifter, and he has infused his tale of troubled young love among hard-working fisherfolk with a peasant robustness notably lacking in recent, more aristocratically attuned Japanese novels, e.g., Lady of Beauty, Some Prefer Nettles...
...silence. But last summer, when the Communists began to impose the cooperative system on the machinery of their trade-their boats, their carefully tended nets and their daily catches-the fishermen could tolerate no more. In September a fleet of 200 fishing junks, manned by some 1,600 refugee fisherfolk, set out from Kwangtung to find a freer life in the waters around Hong Kong...