Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elder Diefenbaker tutored young John, kept him reading nightly by the light of a coal-oil lamp. According to a family legend, John looked up one night from a biography of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911, and announced in a firm voice: "I'm going to be Premier of Canada." His mother smiled; John's studies went ahead as though high office were indeed the aim. He never even learned to milk...
...lives in the elegant villa like a wandering Okie. A flock of pigeons coo from the third-floor balcony, chickens cluck on the lawn, the goat is kept on the second floor. Significantly the one clear space in the house is around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just as a torero takes his bull through...
...Near the center of the new wen-jen hua movement which he founded, Painter Shen Chou retired to his garden pavilion. He depicted his ideal life in such paintings as Sitting Up at Night, wrote that he had achieved the ideal state with "one flower and one bamboo, one lamp and one small table, books of poems and volumes of classics-with them I pass the rest of my years. My friends are elderly farmers, my conversations are with the mountains, my life is devoted to gardening. News of worldly affairs does not enter my gate. Should it intrude...
...happens, a man becomes a prisoner; there are times when he almost breaks free, but there is one link in the chain that always holds; there are times when he almost forgets...but there is one tiny cell that still keeps working, working even when he is asleep, one lamp that will not go out, that is forever...
...last week, many a newly enfranchised voter consulted animal entrails as well as his conscience. In India the complex issues facing the world's largest democracy were being decided (see below) by an electorate which had to choose between party symbols, such as "the bullocks" and "the oil lamp," because most of its members could not read. Leaders of the young new nations would probably agree that freedom is a risky venture, more, so than they once recognized, and that their worst problems persist after the imperialists get out. Yet who among them would want to abandon their independence...