Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To keep his art "automatic," he read the Book of Psalms while his hands did what they pleased. He became a vegetarian ("I don't think I could have worked so long on roast beef") and, what was more important, he found a dealer. Cooper's labors, on exhibition in a London gallery last week, inspired a certain amount of automatic writing on the part of British critics. "It may perhaps be taken...
...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
Bernard Shaw, 92, applying for a two-year membership in the London Vegetarian Society, slyly suggested that the rules be amended-just this once-to make his ?1 fee good for his lifetime...
...relishes: a special request for a quiverful of Shavian shafts. The Communist Daily Worker asked him to comment on the indictment of the twelve American Communist leaders (TIME, Aug. 2). G.B.S., who has claimed to be an atheist, an anti-Darwinian (see BOOKS), a "creative evolutionist" and a vegetarian, "refrained from comment" in 212 words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing it. But American legislators, ostensibly Christians, don't read...
Born. To eden ("only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") ahbez, 36, bearded Hollywood yoga, whose recent attempt at songwriting netted him Nature Boy and a potential $20,000, and anna jacobson ahbez, thirtyish, vegetarian mystic : their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: tatha. Weight...