Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers were not silent about arrests and executions in other parts of the country. Month after month the Hsiao Mieh totals were issued, almost always in round figures: 1,150,000 in the central-south provinces, 1,176,000 in "four administrative regions," 300,000 in the five northwest provinces, and so on. Said Lo calmly: "A large number of people with blood debts have been executed...
...world of the Pacific Northwest's mystic Morris Graves is seen in low-keyed colors: dark browns, misty greys, the glint of surf. Done with techniques heavily influenced by the Orient, his work reveals a world of nature, ranging from joyous pines to blind and wounded birds, that is at once familiar and yet hauntingly mysterious. His current retrospective exhibition of 94 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Whitney Museum shows what an increasing number of collectors and critics have come to realize: Painter Graves at 45 has developed one of the most successful, personalized idioms...
Nowadays, Graves lives in Ireland, a bearded recluse who insists on privacy. There he has added to his list of subjects the hedgerow ferret, and the fox balled up within itself against winter. But living abroad does not mean he has turned his back on the Northwest. Says Graves: "I have memorized the Northwest so I can use it. It does not crowd me like a new environment. I have it in memory...
Adlai Stevenson halted his political tour of the Northwest long enough for a two-day breather last week at snowbound Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Washington's Mt. Hood. On his last day he and five friends ventured out for a quick tour of the area in a Sno-Cat tractor. Half a mile from the lodge, the tractor suddenly crashed over the brink of a 35-ft. snow canyon, turned completely over, dented its aluminum top and landed on its tracks on a snowbank. By great good luck, nobody was scratched...
...Wurtzburgers are off again, this time to Russia, to uncover choice works of Pacific Northwest Indian art collected by Russian seal hunters in Czarist days. "These days the last person who asks the Russians for something seems to get it," says Wurtzburger. "Maybe we'll be lucky...