Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war he settled in a tumble-down villa in a Parisian suburb where to him, as always, the world still seemed as mysterious and insubstantial as that of his paintings. When visitors came he would point to the tangled grass and thickets which surrounded the house and mutter: "I have never explored this land. There must be savage beasts in there." Like the figures in his paintings he was hard to pin down. "It troubles me to talk about my painting," he says. "My mother used to tell me, 'Of God, sprich nicht...
What separates Russia and the U.S. "is a moral issue of the clearest nature," he told 8,000 intent teachers and students jammed into the University of California's cavernous men's gymnasium-and another 2,000 who sprawled on the grass outside, listening to booming loudspeakers. "It cannot be evaded. Let us make no mistake about it." The West was now, and would always be, at odds with a philosophy which claimed "a monopoly of the knowledge of what was right and what was wrong for human beings . . . Yet it does not follow from this that...
...Smith who believes. "This here has been cattle land for as long as I kin remember . . . we cain't give up the fine things that our fathers and grandfathers fought for." When she further explains that sheep should not be allowed in the area because they tear out the grass by the roots, and because they smell bad, her position becomes clear: discrimination against animals because of the way they eat and the way they smell...
...dining room, with its small tables and intimate layout makes for incessant dinner-table discussions and almost unavoidable introduction of strangers. The common room, largest of all the Houses, is the scene of dances and forums of popularity throughout the College, as well as in the Houses. The grass-covered quadrangle provides informal stomping area for garden parties, sunbathing, and House-wide snowball flights...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue, produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME...