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Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...
...inclined to think that St. John Bosco was suffering from hallucinations, and was ripe meat for the practical jokers who ganged up on him at the crucial hour of midnight...
...still the angering hum of change, Duncan listens only to the harmonic rhythm of the seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where...
...Tito himself. In Belgrade, Government Spokesman Branko Draskovic announced coldly that Tito's U.S. visit "will not take place for the time being because the conditions and atmosphere created in the U.S. in connection with it have shown that the time for such a visit is not ripe...
...West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid (from England to Russia and back), the famed Schweinfurt raids, flew 43 combat missions, became LeMay's director of operations in 1953, is now commander of SAC's Fifteenth Air Force...