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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punching the Wall. Last week John, at 32, was looking much better, and feeling like another man. He was doing all right at his $38-a-week job in a small factory which makes household goods. Like a blind man with new-found sight, he was discovering the normal give & take relationships between normal people. Little things like the good-natured kidding of fellow workers were strange and exciting. He now enjoys meeting people, has made some friends, but has still made no dates with girls. With one or more operations to go, John says: "I'm still...
Thus, scarcely out of her teens, "quaking with fear and shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection...
...into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing, was released and smuggled a Bible in the Karen language through the back jungle trails to his native village. There, while Karens guarded the house, he reverently unwrapped the mythical lost book in the flickering light of a primitive lamp. At the sight of the treasure, some villagers bowed down; some wept with happiness; others caressed the sacred object. For decades the Karen Baptists remained a persecuted religious minority. As late as 1851, one Burman ruler threatened to shoot the first Karen he caught who was able to read...
...cubism was not enough. Diego's rebellion began one fine morning in 1918, he recalls: "I was just coming out of a cubist show at the Rosenberg gallery when a fruit vendor passed in front of me in the sunshine, pushing a little wagon full of peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel, not just intellectual constructions." Rivera was coming back to the maxims of his first teacher, old José Posada...
...concept of 'adjustive response' directs attention to the contributions made by a culture pattern to the preservation of the equilibrium of individuals." Kluckhohn asserted, adding that anthropological analysis has tended to lose sight of the human organism...