Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind her on the mud wall of her burned-out hut the Reds, before they were beaten back, had splashed slogans in white paint: "Fight to Nanking!", "Land for the Tillers!" and "Capture the liar Chiang alive...
...recalled, "and not come down until supper time. Christina's a close friend of mine and crippled. Every other day she drags herself across the field from her house to visit the graves of her family. People might call that a gloomy thing to paint, but I don't look at it that...
...Wyeth portrait of Christina took second prize at last month's Carnegie Exhibition (TIME, Oct. 25). "It looks sort of photographic," Wyeth admits. "I guess they all do, but the fact is I never paint from nature. I make careful sketches and then change everything around. For instance the field in Christina's World is not really that large, but I felt it that way. Ever since I was a small kid I felt it was big. For a month and a half I built the ground up, to make it come toward you, that surge of earth...
...tramp around there day after day," he says, "looking for something to paint. Mood is what I'm after. I go through hell to get a good subject, but once I do I'm happy because it's always something I feel close...
...warned against drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...