Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born on a farm in the new country, One-room school for his ABC, Admitted to the bar at 25, Honest Abe legend come alive. Sammy, Sa-a-ammy Hopkins, Grass roots...
Sprinkled Grass...
...Real grass was dried, powdered, and sprinkled over the University courtyards and Charles River Banks. Over 1000 trolley cars and automobiles jam the streets in their customary inextricable tangle. For days, the artists struggled to paint trolley rails, but couldn't make the two-dimensional lines realistic. Finally they hit upon the idea of using shellacked threads, and finished the track-laying in half an hour...
Back in his studio, he had the additional thought of disposing his figures on the grass like those in the lower right-hand corner of Raphael's lost Judgment of Paris, which he knew from Raimondi's engraved copy (above...
...Ember is a common soldier in a nameless army. Hill 317 is a hopeless position in a strategy never understood. The landscape flickers back and forth between realism and surrealism. The road along which the regiment marches "was not a marching straight into autumn . . . Under our marching boots the grass withered and faded." Through sucking mud and pathless rain, the soldiers march to Hill 317. They fight, joke, brawl, complain and die on the hill, forgotten by headquarters. Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took...