Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studio on the quiet campus of the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture last week Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry put the last dab of paint on a 20-foot sweep of canvas, laid down his brushes, and thereby made news. For John Steuart Curry, in the ten years since he first hit his stride with a picture of violence called The Tornado, has become the most notable of U. S. regional artists. And his canvas was the second of two oil-and-tempera murals that will be -lifted into place next autumn on the walls...
...English language news, intoned in bland Oxford accents, is insidious because smooth, therefore, to the unsophisticated, impartial. Consistently the B. B. C. represents the pseudo-democratic viewpoint of Britain's ruling caste, now belligerent because its habitually quiet but nevertheless arrogant assumption of omniscience in Europe and in Asia is effectively challenged by the Dictatorships...
...thick-o'-fog and a drizzle fell in Weymouth Bay one day last week. Quiet in the fog, whispering at anchor, lay scores of great grey ghosts-Britain's reserve fleet, assembled from shipyards throughout the British Isles for royal review. The older salts were pointing and saying: "Remember...
...walking along Heerengracht Canal, Amsterdam, fortnight ago, would have bothered to look twice at No. 412. Four stories high, of dull sandstone, the modest building had no name plate by its door. Nor was there anything spectacular inside, just 30 quiet employes working amidst a lot of papers...
Until his satisfactory identification through omens, portents, visions & oracles, this 14th reincarnation of Buddha was a 5-year-old peasant boy named Tanchu, "quiet mannered with bright penetrating eyes." Now Tanchu will live in a gold-domed penthouse atop the Potala, his massive fortress-palace at Lhasa, spend the next 13 years under the lama regency learning about his previous incarnations and the intricate Lamaist ritual. If he reaches the age of 18 he will be consecrated, rule for the rest of his days...