Word: theo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five" factoring companies, set up to handle the business of the sugar plantations. Gradually, they took over the functions of business agent, banker, labor supplier and arbiter of status. By 1941, the paternalistic Big Five-American Factors, Ltd., C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke Ltd., Theo. H. Davies & Co.-hovered over a vast economy worth $309 million (v. a 1958 gross territorial product of $1.4 billion), and by virtue of interlocking directorates and interlocking marriages, controlled wholesale and retail business, agriculture, banks, land, shipping, society-everything...
...Dear Theo...
This note by the 19-year-old Vincent van Gogh, then a salesman in Goupil's art gallery in The Hague, to his younger brother Theo, 15, began the greatest correspondence in the history of art. Eighteen years and hundreds of letters later, it was to end with the letter found in Vincent's pocket after he had fatally shot himself with a revolver: "Well, the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer...
Night of the Soul. The one stable relationship of Vincent's life was with his younger brother. And it is to Theo, first cautiously, then in a torrent, that he pours forth his doubts and his struggles. From the coal pits of Belgium, he confessed to Theo his failure as a lay preacher, crying: "How can I be of use in the world? Can't I serve some purpose and be of any good?" But only a few months after this night of the soul, Vincent could write, "Well, even in that deep misery I felt my energy...
...voice at 1,230,000 Negroes who live within the 50,000-watt range from Cairo, Ill. to Jackson, Miss. It was soon heeded not only in homes and cars but in the fields, where cotton pickers still take portable radios to pick up the disk-jockey ramblings of Theo ("Bless My Bones") Wade and such musical shows as Tan Town Coffee Club, Wheelin' on Beale and Hallelujah Jubilee. Despite the jazzy titles, WDIA favors spirituals over romp-and-stomp music...