Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedicated almost five years ago. Painted around the water's edge were giant-sized symbols of Mexico's people, their past oppressors and future hopes; beneath the water was an intricate pattern of teeming protoplasmic life. Rivera confidently predicted that his water-washed mural, Water, Origin of Life, painted with a mixture of plastic polystyrene in the fresco pigment, then varnished with transparent rubber, was good for 40 years at least...
...Communist, mercurial, spaniel-eyed Marshall is no Briton either. Of Spanish origin, his family migrated from the Levant to Singapore, where his father Anglicized the Hebrew family name, Mashal (meaning parable). Born in 1908, young Marshall went to Singapore's St. David's School, suffered malaria and tuberculosis, sold automobiles, went to London to study law, and set up as a barrister in Singapore. A member of the Singapore Volunteer Force in World War II, he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942; his fellow prisoners remember his determined cheeriness in a Hokkaido camp in which...
...Eduard Heimann of New York City, economist, of Jewish parentage: "The Episcopal Church and her mother Church have been uniquely blessed in not having at their origin an overpowering religious genius of the Aquinas or Luther or Calvin types. Without their creativity the Episcopal Church would certainly not be what she is, but under their absolute claims she could never have developed her own sense of humility, moderation, and balance . . . The reverse side of our blessing clearly is that eclecticism is not a constructive principle, much less a prophetic quality...
Broken Window. The bewildered victim was Fred Nicholas, a swarthy little cabinetmaker who moved into the predominantly poor-white Bertrams district of Johannesburg shortly after the law was passed. Dark as he was (he explained that his father was of Portuguese origin), he had long passed as white and been so classified. His wife worked with other white women at a nearby factory, one of his sons went to the all-white Athlone high school. But one day Nicholas quarreled with John Fillis, a colored school master who lived around the corner...
...Public Opinion reported some sorry figures: 57% of the nation's high-school graduates and 26% of its college graduates have not read a single book in the past year. Asked to name the authors of twelve famous works- Leaves of Grass, Gulliver's Travels, The Origin of Species, etc.-9% of the college graduates could not give a single name. 39% could not name more than three...