Word: guardi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their colonies, and in Indonesia too. We have run into trouble in the past year in Laos, Iran, and Jordan for stories that displeased the censors. In Ghana, a local distributor, on his own initiative, prudently burned all copies of one issue that reprinted a cartoon from the Manchester Guardi an showing Nkrumah gagging the press. In Arab countries, censors sometimes wield their scissors as if they were scimitars. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Libya have confiscated or cut pages out of issues in recent months, and in Iraq the censor has objected to stories about Middle Eastern politics...
...artist to whom Tiepolo was apprenticed gave him little more than a routine training, but the boy taught himself enough to get a major commission in 1715 at the age of 19. He married a sister of his contemporaries, Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi, and life became one success after another...
...similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's gently shaded Venetian Scene...