Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing in the sun in the White House rose garden, about 100 delegates to the 1957 National Council of the League of Women Voters waited to hear some customary words of greeting from the President of the U.S. But Ike, having read earlier the women's statement of principles, e.g., in favor of international economic development, suddenly decided that "this looks like a swell time" to say some things of weight...
Popping out of the French doors leading from his office to the garden, Ike radiated the good effects of his 13-day vacation in Augusta, Ga. He jovially accepted a leather-bound copy of the women's declaration, then, to everybody's astonishment, broke into a 15-minute extemporaneous foreign-policy address...
...projected non-resident House, intended to replace Dudley, will be built on University-owned property on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, now part of the garden adjoining the Fly Club...
...delight in intimate, everyday scenes, anecdotal and often merely decorative. But with the custom of copying from old masters, along with an absorption in technique for its own sake, art came perilously close to feeding upon itself. The famed three-volume painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient in each of them, ranging from "hemp fibers" and "ax cuts" to "horses' teeth" and "sesame seeds...
...masterpiece of brush technique. ¶ Shen Chou, who inherited the Literary Man's Painting tradition, played the role of rustic philosopher, ignoring the ceremonial elegance of court life. Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such paintings as Sitting Up at Night, wrote that he had achieved the ideal state with "one flower and one bamboo, one lamp and one small table, books of poems and volumes of classics-with them I pass the rest of my years...