Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and third day, the doctors gave the students a modified Rorschach (ink blot) test designed to spot psychotic symptoms. All passed. Early on the third day they also gave a complex, 45-minute comprehension test. Although by this time all the students had had illusions and "waking dreams," were glassy-eyed with fatigue, they collected their addled senses well enough to solve the test problems...
...Thinking. As Barzilai grew impatient for his kingdom, he began receiving a series of 32 letters signed "God Almighty." In red ink (when the Lord was angry) and in black (when he was not), the typewritten letters demanded that Barzilai return all documents and paraphernalia to Barti. The return address was not heaven, but % Rabbi Barti. Finally, Barti ordered Barzilai to Tiberias to fast for 40 days. "I ate nothing but a few slices of bread and drank nothing but water," said Barzilai. "But I did do quite a lot of thinking." As a result of his thinking, Barzilai went...
...senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that, at a subsequent first night, among those present was "the saturnine poet Paul Verlaine who gave his arm to a charming young person named Miss Rimbaud...
...wolf-and-goat-hair brush poised in his hand like a dart. Suddenly he reached to the top of the paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room, the audience burst into applause. Thus Formosa...
...United States, they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...