Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fact remains that no young artist today can wholly escape Picasso's shadow. Picasso has done as much as anyone to develop the two distinguishing and disputed techniques of modern art: abstraction and distortion...
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an untouchable, reared in the Hindu teaching that even his shadow would pollute a high-caste Indian. Like every other good Hindu, he was enjoined for his soul's good to accept with resignation the life to which he was born. But even as a boy, Bhimrao had other plans. Supporting himself as a hamal (one who cleans floors and bathrooms), he worked his way through the village school, won a scholarship for college in Bombay, where reports of his intelligence reached the ears of the benevolent Gaekwar of Baroda. The Gaekwar sent...
...threat of aggression casts its shadow upon every quarter of the globe," he soberly reported to Congress last week. "The Soviet Union has dedicated itself to the destruction of democracy and everything which it represents, and is waging a grim struggle to make the entire free world slave . . . Moreover, her success in producing an atomic explosion has given [Soviet actions] new and frightening overtones that free nations cannot ignore...
...Nothing rustles, nothing casts a fluttering shadow: there is something frightening about the very unhauntedness of 'functional' modern rooms," Irish-born Novelist Elizabeth (The Heat of the Day) Bowen wrote in the Saturday Review of Literature. ". . . Atmosphere has been conditioned...
...down an endless corridor; a torturer, carrying the tools of his trade, and two priests pass him without notice. When he finally reaches the open air, his cry of exultation is drowned out by a liturgical chant from chorus and organ. Two arms reach out for him from the shadow of a tree, and the jailer steps forth to inquire, "Why did you want to leave us on the eve of your salvation?" The prisoner then finally understands that he can never escape. His spirit broken, he is led off to be executed; as the curtain goes down, he babbles...