Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moon. Following army spearheads the next day, the observation group visited Markos' former capital, Aetomilitsa, a typical mountain village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
...matter where a man stands in Korea he can see a mountain. The Koreans say: "You cannot sit in the valley and see the new moon set." Last week, in Seoul, Korea's aging new President Syngman Rhee made the same point with another proverb: "You cannot expect to lift a heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed...
What could be done to repair China's shattered morale? Last week, in mountain-top Kuling, where he often goes in moments of his most earnest self-searching, the Gimo and his most trusted advisers tried to find answers. Some of the alternative courses which China might take...
...ideal training," he says, "would combine the kind of technical skill you learn at the Boston Museum School [how to paint what you see] with the more ab stract approach [painting as a language of its own] that Black Mountain provides...
...budding modems were equally impressive. An abstraction that looked like a diagram of ballet positions for a dancing telephone, by Black Mountain's Ruth Asawa, was the. exhibition's high point in originality. Another girl student-Helen Kae Carter of Iowa State-sent a successfully elaborate still life of kitchen utensils hanging in midair; it was the happily screwball kind of experiment that professionals, with livings to make, seldom get around to. Philip Ciotti of the Carnegie Institute had explored the thin world between abstraction and reality to produce his weird, orange Newspaper Office (see cut). The result...