Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unsparing Story. When the journey began, Patterson was a gawky Negro of 18, unable to write and barely able to read. When he escaped in 1948 he was a calloused and bitter 35, a veteran of years of prison brutality and evil, and possessed of the one-track eloquence of a man who had pondered his grievances for 17 years. He had also come to believe that his truest friends were the Communists, who had exploited the Scottsboro case for their own ends...
Three months ago British Playwright R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End) turned down a $28,000 offer to write a movie scenario for Hollywood. Reason: after paying Socialist Britain's income tax, Sherriff reckoned that he would have only $1,400 of his earnings left (TIME, March 27). Last week another British writer announced his intention to strike against the exorbitant tax rates. From his latest book Legacy, Novelist Nevil Shute (Pastoral, Chequer Board) expects to make about ?18,000 ($50,400), but after paying British taxes he will be able to keep only about...
...employs today. In his spotless Paris studio, Craftsman Braque works at his complex, heavily textured canvases slowly and with obvious enjoyment. "The fun," he says, "is that when you begin a picture you never know what it's going to look like. Each new work is a journey into the unknown." The Terrace represented a twelve-month on & off cruise for Braque...
...World" programs will go out over some 250 U.S. radio stations (and eventually The Voice of America and leading European stations). Program No. 1 will star an orchestra already familiar to U.S. record fans: the famed Vienna Philharmonic. The others will carry U.S. listeners on a 1,400-mile journey across less familiar territory-from the Danish Radio Symphony to the State Symphony of Greece...
...Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...