Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must go to America, man." said Cork's kindly harbor master, Albert Barnes, last week as the old vessel was hauled out for repairs vital to the journey, "for pity's sake, take the easy stage by Spain and the Azores...
America had a lot of other things to learn about Asia's key man. Nehru has been a somewhat nebulous figure, graceful and great, "a jewel among men" as his master Mahatma Gandhi said, but vaguely seen and known. Now, after two years as Prime Minister of free India, he is emerging in sharp and colorful detail. The cultured patriot with the Cambridge accent, luminous eyes and magnetic smile who spent 13 of his 60 years in British jails has become the Orient's unoriental, supercharged public executive...
...many artists must fall by the wayside," mused aging Master Henri Matisse, "for the one that comes through." Most of the 1,000-odd artists exhibiting in Paris' annual "Salon d'Automne" last week had indeed fallen by the wayside. But at least a half dozen had come through...
...still not master of the novel and his characters have a foursquare, surface rightness rather than depth. He can also use some unashamed, sugary, overripe prose: "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose." But most readers will be thankful for a fictional fidelity to time & place that is wholly exceptional among Guthrie's competitors...
...monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or a phrase of some medieval musician; his opponent replied with a complementary phrase, or with one opposing it, or related to it, and the Game proceeded, with constantly deepening associations, with references more varied, subtle and ingenious. The greatest players became the leaders of the Order, and the greatest of all its central...