Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still call the Indian Mutiny. (Some Indians now call it the "First War of Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people march forward, they are bound to stumble. But we have gone forward in this...
...filled his most ambitious book to date ostensibly with the adventure story of an explorer. But beneath the surface, it is really a self-examining essay in which the continent's odd geography, zoology and climate serve as a metaphor for White's real theme-the uncharted journey into the dry, unblazed interior of the Australian mind. Landscape is the protagonist. It is said of one character: "His failures took shape, but in flowers and mountains." Another character speaks of "the grey of mediocrity" (the color of the Australian earth and foliage) and the "blue of frustration...
Married. Barbara Yvonne White. 20, orphaned in the bombing of London, adopted daughter of Publisher-Editor William L. (Bill) White of the Emporia Gazette, and child heroine of Editor White's 1941 novel. Journey for Margaret; and Air Force 2nd Lieut. Paul David Walker Jr., 22; in Emporia, Kans...
Twenty years later, John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brook-line and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley, and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
Spread on the museum's walls, Picasso's works provide the viewer with a journey through 50 years that changed art more radically than it had been changed in the 500 years before. It is a journey conducted by the man who, more than any other, did the changing. Picasso himself obligingly recalls his point of departure with an early canvas. Le Moulin de la Galette (see opposite), painted when he was 19 and a fiery-eyed Spanish provincial on his first visit to Paris. "Banal but talented," pronounced Painter Amedee Ozenfant, "and that...