Word: sower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen spoke derisively of Harry Truman's "scolding, threatening, complaining speeches." The President, he said, had "dishonored labor with an extreme demagogic appeal." He called him a sower of "the seeds of disunity for the sake of fleeting political advantage...
Some respectful and some grinning, the visitors crowded around two paintings, Millet's Sower (lent by the Provident Trust Co.) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Reading from Homer. A few of the oldest and boldest confessed that Millet and Alma-Tadema still looked great to them...
Both paintings had been reproduced hundreds of thousands of times; they were once tacked up in schoolrooms and kitchens from coast to coast. The Sower possessed an everyday drama for those who knew farming, and for schoolteachers it served to illustrate the homely lesson that dawn follows darkness and life rises again from the earth. And it was nice for turn-of-the-century housewives to glance up from the grits and bacon simmering on the stove and rest their eyes on the ancient world represented in Reading from Homer-somehow infinitely cooler and finer, and with more marble...
...their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other's buttocks. Johannes Robin is a symbol of that international class myopia which bankrolled Naziism-a bland, would-be-guileful sower of "dragon's teeth...