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...last six words! Proletarian labor, as a subject for art, was the invention of the 19th century; for that, the country-bred Millet was largely responsible. Other paintings of his met similar critical obloquies: The Gleaners, 1857, "have enormous pretensions-they pose like the three fates of pauperdom." The Sower, 1850, was greeted by one conservative as an insult to the dignity of work: "I regret that M. Millet so calumniates the sower," he wrote, disturbed by that faceless and inexplicably menacing colossus striding down the dark hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Great Lost Painter | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...long journey, he clearly requires strong drink and a hearty meal. A profound cultural misunderstanding may be provoked, though, if a thirsty Russian asks, "In which saloon is the Folk Arts Exhibition?" Later, in a restaurant, he may turn to the waiter and say: "Please give me curds, sower cream, fried chicks, pulled bread and one jelly fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Having What to Learn | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

Notably successful in straightening out the tangled prose of the Pauline Epistles, the Confraternity translation occasionally falters into leaden phrasing in the Gospels. The parable of the sower and the seed (Matthew 13:24-30) begins with all the grace of an Agriculture Department bulletin: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to the situation of a farmer who sowed good seed in his field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: Translation on Trial | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...Building wreckers here and in Boston should take every precaution to prevent these rodents from traveling," he said. "And if the rodents are from the sower project at Magazine Beach, it is up to the MDC to take steps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vellucci Uncovers Local Rat Menace | 8/11/1964 | See Source »

...solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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