Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrawling in the Sand. Making the princely local sum of $7 a month as headman, his father could afford the luxury of school for Tom at Kabaa mission, 25 miles away, where Roman Catholic priests were Irish and the fees were $14 a year. There, at nine, Tom scrawled his lessons in the sand under a shade tree, for classrooms were crowded and blackboards nonexistent. At his next school, St. Mary's, near Lake Victoria, the lessons for the first time were in English. He was no prodigious scholar, and no leader, but he liked singing, acting, and especially...
...reserves his best hours for painting of the stillest sort, often at the studio of his house in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. He coats each large canvas with thin color, then drips onto it what appear to be blobs, twigs and trailings of plastic glue. Onto the glue he drips sand from the beach. Then he works in gobs of bright color with a palette knife, and finally glazes over most of the picture with more thin sheets of color. The results are physically as fragile, in all probability, as those of an earlier American romantic, Albert Pinkham Ryder. They look...
...pocked, the plank beds began to rot, and rust spread slowly over the huge locks and chains. Last week the deserted colony was put up for public auction. It was one of a number of "chattels"-a dry canal, 15 coast guard stations, five silos, two restaurants, two sand dunes, 43 prisons-that the French government is eager to get rid of, and in this case, anxious to forget...
Dead Calm. The usually reserved President Charles de Gaulle cried "Hurrah for France!" and cabled ecstatically: "Since this morning she is prouder and stronger!" Proud French officials said that weather conditions had been almost ideal in the red rock and sand testing area of Reggan, some 750 miles southwest of Algiers, lying near an ancient caravan route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River...
Came the Revolution. George Sand's grandmother once told her that "the Revolution brought old age into the world." Certainly, the tumbrils seemed to cart off some of the zest of Author Epton's chronicle. Napoleon, the self-made emperor, bolted his love affairs the way he bolted his meals. Lovers, who had been pretty vigorous since the Renaissance, again began to talk about dying. A book on How to Succeed in Love, published in 1830, suggested fainting fits, attacks of hysteria, and suicide threats. Morbid romanticism subsequently gave way to liaisons based on credit ratings. Toward...