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...Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such paintings as Sitting Up at Night, wrote that he had achieved the ideal state with "one flower and one bamboo, one lamp and one small table, books of poems and volumes of classics-with them I pass the rest of my years. My friends are elderly farmers, my conversations are with the mountains, my life is devoted to gardening. News of worldly affairs does not enter my gate. Should it intrude...
...happens, a man becomes a prisoner; there are times when he almost breaks free, but there is one link in the chain that always holds; there are times when he almost forgets...but there is one tiny cell that still keeps working, working even when he is asleep, one lamp that will not go out, that is forever...
...last week, many a newly enfranchised voter consulted animal entrails as well as his conscience. In India the complex issues facing the world's largest democracy were being decided (see below) by an electorate which had to choose between party symbols, such as "the bullocks" and "the oil lamp," because most of its members could not read. Leaders of the young new nations would probably agree that freedom is a risky venture, more, so than they once recognized, and that their worst problems persist after the imperialists get out. Yet who among them would want to abandon their independence...
...Seventh Avenue's manufacturers, he was a guiding lamp in an uncertain world; he could tell them not what women had liked (they knew that), but what women would like in the next months, and they could make their plans accordingly. More than any other man, Dior has succeeded in making the Paris couturier, a man dedicated to painstaking and individual design for wealthy and exacting customers, a prime factor in the 20th century era of mass-produced clothes...
...cars) at 65 m.p.h. Next year the Union Pacific will try out a newer model, which it hopes will burn an even cheaper fuel-powdered coal. Such roads as the Denver & Rio Grande Western are looking even farther ahead. Its staff of scientists has already developed an atomic signal lamp that will stay bright for twelve years by using radioactive isotopes, is also at work on an atomic-powered locomotive...