Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Kearns. Lebrun is typically represented by an agonized nude entitled Crying Machine, Baskin by a recumbent sculpture suggestive of a fire victim, and Kearns by a powerful drawing of children watching an auto accident. The Kearns has Spanish intensity, plus the dark, gritty air of a Pennsylvania mining town. All three artists, Rodman says, "project anguish over the human predicament...
...himself, founded Locronan. According to legend, St. Ronan spent his time in a hermit's cell, studied spiders as they spun their webs, and adapted their technique to the art of weaving, which soon brought prosperity to the village. St. Ronan, tradition has it, was driven out of town by a mob of angry shrews whose leader accused him of being a werewolf-she was afraid that the hermit was persuading her husband to become a monk. The saint left town walking barefoot across the rocky terrain outside the village...
...this path was the way of penitence; tradition demanded that they follow it in pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime or else be obliged to do so after death, advancing only one coffin-length each year. In the 10th century, Benedictine monks built a monastery just outside the town, and the pilgrimage turned into a "pardon walk" around the monastery's land-hence the word Tromenie, which is Breton for "tour of the refuge...
...Hole in the Head (Sincap; United Artists) is just what famed Filmaster Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) needed this picture like-unless, after an eight-year absence from moviemaking, it was only money he was after. The story about a Jewish family has undergone nearly every possible treatment by Author Arnold Schulman (one-act play, TV script, a novel, two full-length plays, one of which made Broadway) except maybe a synopsis baked inside a Chinese fortune cookie...
...schools where Negroes have never been enrolled before. Elsewhere in the South, there was progress, however cautious: ¶ Florida's first desegregated school will be Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School, where four Negro pupils have been told to report this fall. ¶ The North Carolina tidewater town of Havelock, possibly forestalling withdrawal of U.S. aid for its overcrowded white schools, decided to admit the children of Negro marines serving at nearby Cherry Point airbase to white schools. ¶ Two federal court orders for the submission of desegregation plans opened the possibility of desegregation in the South...