Word: millets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using images from my dreams and from some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain one of the greatest living painters...
...Panmunjom last week, the frozen furrows of the millet field around the truce talks tent softened to the first thaw of the new year. The cold features of North Korea's General Nam II were also a degree or two warmer. For the first time since the resumption of the truce talks last fall, the Communist negotiator brought along with him, in his shiny black Chrysler, a proposition that seemed to offer an acceptable formula on an important issue...
Varsity manager John Kelso '53, of Westport, Connecticut, and Eliot House, moved up to undergraduate manager of football: Francis Millet '54, of Chappaqua. New York, and Claverly Hall, became varsity manager; and John Chatfield '55, of Cincinnati and Massachusetts Hall, won the freshman managerial competition...
...enrolled, there is no getting out. If the student is a stubborn case, there is a process called indoctrination through labor, which means he is put to work in a gang, on repairing Peking's city walls or digging sewers. Food is rationed at 20 ounces of kaoliang (millet) and one ounce of peanut oil a day, topped with occasional boiled potatoes and cabbage and about two ounces of meat a week. Students follow a 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. routine, broken only by two half-hour rest periods...
...wait a MILLET," interposed the younger. "They could win in a WALSH...