Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official-following the mandarin tradition-in the imperial puppet government. He was fired because the French suspected him of "patriotic" sympathies. Embittered, he used to declare that "being a mandarin is the ultimate form of slavery." He went on to eke out an existence as a nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon. At the age of 21, Ho signed on as a mess boy on a France-bound liner. He was not to set foot in his homeland again for 30 years...
...grandeur of the West is already surrealistic, as in "Sand Dunes at Sunrise, Death Valley" (1954), then surrealism is nature and Adams is only its faithful scribe. We must look to his choice of the instant in portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of the artist shaping its material. The regularity of the natural stonework in "Grand Canvon" is like the automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity...
This position is one all persons living in genuine democracy can scribe...
...Then arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, 'behold, our butter stinketh, we cannot eat thereof: now, give us, we pray thee, butter that stinketh...
...punish Asa the Scribe, and make him confess before all Harvard...