Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study the subject. To make up for the slowdown, he ordered postal employees to work overtime, but it was like trying to melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked up. The post office announced that it could not handle parcel post (except for hospitals and military units...
Forster, the gifted, intelligent observer of a nation, is thus cut from the play, but Santha Rama Rau has nearly solved the problem of his absence by an unbelievably skillful job of compressing and condensing his views into the speeches of her characters. Her play has shed much of his subtley, but his outlook remains: simplified, the play still tells us the complexity of India's tragedy. (Wherever possible, she has kept Forster's original dialogue, too-an admirable practice, since he is one of the few modern writers who can make characters sound natural when they are talking brilliantly...
...other moments he is under the spell of Van Gogh or Cézanne. But in his whole work, the old masters are also present, for unlike Vlaminck, Derain spent hours copying in the Louvre. "I do not innovate," he explained. "I transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into a guitar, a bicycle wheel, a pre-Columbian monster. The handwriting has replaced style...
Vivid as a Flag. Republic of Katanga was its name, and red, white and green were its colors-"Red for the blood shed for Katanga's freedom, white for purity and green for hope," explained Tshombe in an exultant moment. There also were three Maltese crosses on his banner-in the burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia...
...more ominous overtones : "So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new prisons. So that all frontiers should fall, we surrounded ourselves with a Chinese Wall. So that work should become a rest and a pleasure, we introduced forced labor. So that not one drop of blood should be shed any more, we killed and killed and killed...