Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in 1831, William Matthew Prior of Bath, Me. offered bargains: "Persons wishing for a flat picture can have a likeness without shade or shadow at one quarter price." Joseph Whiting Stock of Springfield, Mass, spent most of his 40 years in a wheelchair, but managed to turn out more than 900 portraits by the time he died...
...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 debating. His teachers noted another characteristic...
...principal pieces, both choreographed by Cunningham, were Summer-space and Antic Meet, set to music by two modernists-Morton Feldman, 35, and John Cage, 47. The first, described as "a lyric dance," was an impressionistic work evoking the shimmering heat of summer, the play of light and shade. It was danced before a pointillistic backdrop of blue and green, and the dancers wore similarly dappled costumes (the spots were sprayed on with a paint gun), which permitted them to disappear into and emerge from the scenery as if they were passing through a wall. Throughout, various members of the company...
...curiosity and continues the conversations because he hopes to write his master's thesis in form of a novel. The device is awkward, and the frequent asides to the reader are irritating. A scene in which the young man fancies he js in communication with the shade of Millhouser's mother is as embarrassing as any in recent fiction...
...Still a shade behind New York, fast-growing California is the second most populous state in the nation. And it is growing younger, not older: next year it expects to have 500,000 more public school children than New York. Last week California's Governor Pat Brown tackled his growth problem by submitting a 1960-61 budget of $2.477 billion that is not only bigger (by $442 million) than New York's, but an impressive earnest of the power of rich states to support education. If the state legislature approves, California will spend more next year...