Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renaissance; his frames impart the spiritual light of common things. And he can paint for the ear as well as for the eye; when suddenly the sound track fills with singing birds and a music of axles, bright September blows into the theater, tingling in the thoughts like merry harvest weather. Director Dreyer loves the human face ("A land one can never tire of exploring"), and he has chosen his faces with a sure insight. Best of all, perhaps, are the faces of the pregnant woman (Birgitte Federspiel) and her husband (Emil Haas Christensen), which make a simple, touching revelation...
...taxpayers' money in Germany?" Your story is the best possible confirmation that the Marshall Plan was an investment in West Germany. The U.S. furnished the seed, Erhard tilled the soil and planted it; the cold war provided the hothouse atmosphere; the German people are bringing in the harvest. H. E. REISNER Publisher Made, in Europe Frankfurt, West Germany...
...machine guns. The rebels reported the loss of 40 dead in the nine clashes but claimed to have killed five times that many government troops. For his next move Castro called for wide-scale sabotage, through his underground, of Cuba's all-important sugar-cane harvest, which traditionally starts in January. His slogan: "Batista without harvest or harvest without Batista...
Subject & Self. American painting is primarily a recurring harvest, not of art traditions but of human endeavors."Nothing is so poor and melancholy," Santayana wrote, "as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." American painters in general have turned not to themselves but to the nation, embracing and mirroring its thousand aspects. Charles Willson Peale fought at Princeton and Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook...
...daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...