Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jathedar Sohan Singh: to wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, which has 29,480 rhymed homilies. Sample: "At the throne of God, grace is obtained by two things: open confession and reparation for wrong...
Wizened Old Master Orozco contributed a twisted mass of bayonets and struggling bodies entitled The Trench, which looked like a great many he had done before. (His best-known Trench was painted in 1923.) Fat, fast-talking Old Master Diego Rivera, who can always be counted on for a surprise, was surprisingly absent. He had been appointed a juror, and resigned at the last minute because "too little attention is given to architecture. I believe architecture is the most important of all the plastic arts. And second, I think too much prominence is given to the older artists...
...seven languages, riding his Spanish horses every afternoon, and discovering everything there was to know about ancient sculpture, cameos, and Italian architecture. He crowned a career of half-secret diplomacy (interlarded with profitable royal portrait commissions) by temporarily reconciling Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England. The master seemed to have all the minor gifts too-equanimity, charm, industry and good looks...
Peacocks & Collectors. Last week the citizens of Antwerp gossiped in Rubens' private apartments, gawked at a gold necklace which Rubens' sexy-looking second wife, Helena Fourment, once wore, mused on some of the Master's slickest portraits and best and butteriest painted goddesses, scanned the formal gardens where ruffed collectors and peacocks once displayed their slow, glistening struts, and dawdled in the 35 ft. by 46 ft. studio where Rubens' assistants had labored to produce some 3,000 paintings signed by Peter Paul Rubens...
Professor Northrop, Master of Yale's Silliman College, is a man who has something important to say. What he has to say embraces so many facts with such assurance, and is so radical and so constructive, that his book may well influence history, as he seriously proposes that it should...