Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market for modern art is booming as never before. Some startling particulars of the boom were ticked off this week by Collector-Critic James Thrall Soby, writing in the Saturday Review: "If the prices for Matisse, Picasso, Rouault and Bonnard have tripled or quadrupled since the war, those of some of their less overwhelming colleagues have soared in far greater proportion ... A Kandinsky costing less than $1,000 in 1930 would now fetch about $8,000; a Mondrian actually bought by an American museum 20 years ago for $400 would be almost $10,000 today . . . Paul Klees, which used...
...with laughter and tears, street parades, community sings and free candy for the kids. In the state of Uttar Pradesh it was Deliverance Day, the day that marked the end of zamindari, a system of tax collecting which has held most of India's plain people in thrall since the Middle Ages...
...wrapping process is the long-awaited "peace contract"* which transforms West Germany from the thrall of its conquerors into the land of the almost-free...
...Japanese holdouts still fighting World War II on tiny Anatahan Island. One of their group, Japanese Petty Officer Junji Inoue, had surrendered to the crew of a U.S. Navy tug three weeks ago (TIME, June 25). He told his captors then that the others were being held in thrall at machine-gun point by a tyrannical seaman named Ichiro. The Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes of companions killed by accidents or internal strife...
...derelict group was rent by a minor civil war: eight of the men were murdered by their companions; the others were held in thrall by a dictatorial seaman named Ichiro, who threatened death to anyone trying to escape. When the U.S. Marines took over the island in 1945, the Japanese hid in the hills. Letters from home, dropped obligingly on the beach by the U.S. Navy, told them the war was over and urged them to come home, but the Japanese refused to surrender...