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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand. For the Chinese art lover, the pleasure of viewing a painting includes enjoying the calligraphy of the written words as an art in itself, deciphering the seals, analyzing the brushwork and drawing. But, essentially, each work reflects one great central theme. For well over a thousand years Chinese painters have been primarily concerned not with the works of man but with nature; their most triumphant subject has been landscape...
...more attractive and exclusive organizations--it was becoming a club for those who had no club. True, organizations meeting within its walls kept the building occupied and officers of "The House of Fellowship" maintained undergraduate prestige, but by 1908 dues-paying membership had declined to less than two thousand...
Shahn said the third step, integration, will bring this knowledge into a unified whole with the personality. This "uniting of the thousand facets of experience into form," is the artistic process, he pointed...
...thousand years ago, Cato Major, musing on the problem of inhuman courage, said: "There is a difference between a man's prizing valor at a great rate, and valuing life at little." In their book, Coauthors Van Doren and Roske (a Civil War historian) are similarly bemused by Will Cushing's reckless bravery. They contrast it with the more measured courage of his brother Alonzo, a man who knew fear and hated war, yet died bravely at Gettysburg. Like many another hero, Will Cushing found it hard to adjust to peace. His final escapade in Cuba came close...
Nearly one million railroad workers will be affected, as well as a couple of hundred thousand workers in the aircraft and electrical manufacturing industries. Their wage rates are geared partly by labor contracts to the government's index of living costs. The index has hit a new high for each of the last six months...