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...winter he will stay in Switzerland to work on a huge (52½ ft. by 10 ft.) painting of the battle of Thermopylae ("against barbarism, against uniformity") for the University of Hamburg. In the spring he will go to India to paint, and eventually, when he tires of travel, wander back to his London apartment. He has no studio; he likes to paint landscapes out in the open air, portraits at the subject's home...
...traveler goes on across the sluggish River Son, then turns south into the state of Bihar, the landscape begins to change. The land is dry and almost desert-like. Scattered here & there, like the bare bones of long-dead hills, are piles of gigantic stones. Jackals wander across the fields, and black kites wheel lazily in the sky. Tiny villages huddle beside the road, and when an automobile approaches, naked children cower in fright, then invariably, as panicky chickens do, dart into the car's path. Gaunt women, stripped to the waist, work in the fields...
...treasuries of Air Force Aid societies and local charities, pays for barracks improvements and gives SAC airmen a constructive off-duty hobby-tinkering with engines. Moreover, the Sports Car Club gains the advantage of sporty, twisting courses on the runways, where chance spectators are not so apt to wander out into the turns as they sometimes do in road racing...
While this attitude may be defensible for the department's regular program, it is hardly apt when carried over to tutorial work. The fear that sophomore groups might wander off the grand sweep, studying Collycibber instead of Pope, has led the department to climinate self directed tutorial sessions by anchoring them to the hard core, of English 10. The sections of English 10 are the tutorial sessions; the section men are the tutors, and they must necessarily gear their work to that of the course. All groups, therefore, study roughly the same material, at approximately the same speed and diversions...
...been produced by many amateur groups since that time, and is no doubt familiar to most theatre goers. Structurally, it is unconventional theatre. There is little suspense, and even less plot. Most of the characters are reminiscent of the Kaufman and Hart people who merely wander on and off the stage...