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...rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world about...
...petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted...
...Here wheat is grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...
...Peru's verdant Chicama valley, back in the first millennium of the Christian era, lived a happy race known as the Mochicas. Their civilization was perhaps not as brilliant as that of the Incas who came later, yet they managed to live and love in ways that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing...
This way of life continued until "something deep down inside him suddenly changed ... A cool moonlight night, a verdant prospect, pretty women, sweet music began to move him profoundly. Whenever he was moved by beauty, he wanted to be alone with his joy." The picture of a Burmese society girl, ripped from a newspaper, was U Nu's talisman, inspiring him "to do good deeds, champion the weak, subdue the oppressors...