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...youth, the effort to reconcile the truth of outdoor painting with his ambition to make "important pictures" on a Salon scale bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
...fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best work is his own Personal History (1935), a minor classic on his first years as a swashbuckling, trench-coated correspondent...
...Pillager last week, a farmer placed the barrel of a 22-cal. pistol against the head of a three-month-old calf and pulled the trigger, felling the animal instantly. Another farmer then slit the calf's jugular vein. Its carcass was dragged to a freshly dug trench and kicked in. Another calf was shot and disposed of in the same manner, then another and another, until by midafternoon almost 300 head had been destroyed and piled in the pit. The day's last kill was a sackful of ten-day-old piglets; they were shot and dumped...
...hallowed ground between the 30 and 40-yard lines from which kickers booted a majority of their field goals last year will become a pit for trench warfare next season. Outside the 30-yard line, in third-and-short and fourth down situations, the interior line will fight it out not only for the first-down yardage, but also for every foot to reduce field goal distance. The three-pointer, in its virtual obsolescence, may become as precious as a touchdown...
...generally attempts to come to terms with particularly intense emotional material: hostile situations with a spouse, problems with parents or an accident." Battle dreams are the most common and can plague ex-soldiers for years after every war. Frequently the veteran dreams that he is crouching in a trench. Once the trauma of war fades with time, such dreams generally disappear...