Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painter Corot did not have to sell his work. The bright, sunny sky he kept throughout his career was well justified by his easy life. Supported by an allowance from his parents (a successful Paris modiste and her bookkeeping husband), the simplehearted, cheerful and generous Corot never knew hardship, was free to travel to Rome, voyage about France, take in Switzerland and Holland. His prime subject was landscape, which he recorded in masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite...
Tyranny, bloodshed and hardship are no newcomers to Sadovy. Born in Czechoslovakia, he tied his home in 1939 at 14 to avoid German forced-labor camps, later joined a Polish unit of the British Eighth Army. He fought up Italy's Adriatic coast as a company photographer, found that the only way to get good pictures was to stay ahead of the infantry...
...reserve officer because his sister was a Communist, and the Navy Department suspended a cartographer, Abraham Chasanow, on the basis of derogatory rumors that were proved baseless. Chasanow's case illustrated the injustice to government employees caused by the operations of the Eisenhower program. Under severe economic and financial hardship during his 13-month suspension, Chasanow was denied an opportunity to confront the witnesses who had testified against...
...want to criticize the Radcliffe administration for ending the contest," remarks finalist Edith A. Grossman '57, "but the contest brought me nothing but pleasure. And I wouldn't have considered winning it a hardship...
...behind the defection? One cause, says Williams, is that many states have been suffering from drought. "Any young man who's been out in that for six or seven years is not going to stay in that kind of business." While farm life seems all "drudgery and hardship," industry is offering beginning salaries to college graduates too tempting to refuse. But the most important factor is that few boys and girls realize that agriculture has become a field that needs highly trained technicians...