Sentences with phrase «peasant life at»

Outside Italy, he became a forgotten man until he bounced back in 1978 with his masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, a three - hour survey of peasant life at the turn of the century, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Not only, for Levi, do the peasants live at a level of «subterranean» intensity beneath the «clear - cut meanings» of reason, religion, and history, they are finally and deeply antagonistic to those meanings:

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For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

The parable of the Soil has been called a «parable on parables» because of the life of God that it witness to through an abundant harvest.145 At the arrival of the harvest, the peasant is overjoyed for the opportunity for his involvement in the creative process of producing something.146

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to live at the crossroads of the ancient world; it gathered up the best that that ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.

I gave up the life of the conventional world, recognizing it to be no life, but a parody on life, which its superfluities simply keep us from comprehending,» — and Tolstoy thereupon embraced the life of the peasants, and has felt right and happy, or at least relatively so, ever since.

So it was a pleasant surprise to me at the end to discover that the compassionate, resourceful, and brave peasant woman we had followed throughout the show turned out to be the love of Robin's life.

at the same time the parable of the talents came to mind and having grown up in Brazil, with parents who were peasants in pre-communist Russia, it was ingrained in me to become an engineer to be successful which I became after i came to the «land of milk and honney, where money grows on trees» and many foreigners aspire to do the same to come and live here, the good ol USA...

The longest living man in the West was Old Par, an English peasant who labored in the fields until his death at 152 years.

As Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School in London from 1876 — 1893, he made a dynamic impact on British art education both as a painter and etcher, and exerted a decisive influence on the representation of peasant life as can be seen in The Tinker 1874.

January 24: Charles Atlas's Torse presented by Sam Frank and David Velasco January 31: Yvonne Rainer's Kristina Talking Pictures February 7: Jennifer Reeves's Chronic + Sadie Benning's Flat Is Beautiful February 8: Trinh T. Minh - ha's Naked Spaces — Living Is Round February 21: D.A. Pennebaker's Elizabeth and Mary presented with MoMA's Documentary Fortnight February 26: Shinsuke Ogawa's Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress March 10: Three Tapes by Carole Roussopoulos presented by Ridykeulous and Stuart Comer March 13: Tony Buba's Lightning Over Braddock introduced by LaToya Ruby Frazier April 11: Sara Gómez's De cierta manera April 21: Jean - Luc Godard and Anne - Marie Miéville's France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children April 28: Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood introduced by Lucy Raven May 8: Scott Bartlett's OffOn + Kinji Fukasaku's The Green Slime May 14: Andy Warhol's Paul Swan introduced by Douglas Crimp June 9: Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli's Anna introduced by Dennis Lim June 12: Michael Thomas's Meat Rack June 23: Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971 - 76) introduced by Nicolas Rapold June 26: An Evening with Cinenova July 3: René Clair's The Crazy Ray + Robert Frank's C'est vrai July 17: Shirley Clarke's The Cool World introduced by Amy Taubin July 24: Nathaniel Dorsky + Susan Howe August 26: For Chris Marker September 9: Michael Snow's La Région centrale introduced by Chantal Akerman September 18: Todd Haynes's Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud + Todd Phillips's Hated: G.G. Allin and The Murder Junkies September 25: Michael Almereyda's Another Girl Another Planet October 8: Esfir Shub + Hito Steyerl October 12: Darmstadt / ISSUE Project Room at Light Industry: David Grubbs + Anthony McCall October 16: James Benning's 11 x 14 introduced by Julie Ault October 17 - 20: Light Industry Benefit Auction at Miguel Abreu Gallery October 23: The Interface Effect a lecture by Alexander R. Galloway presented with Triple Canopy November 13: Alexander Kluge's Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed introduced by Gary Indiana November 19: Tony Bicât's Skinflicker + Arthur Johns's Solarflares Burn for You presented by William Fowler November 27: David Hall + Marlon Riggs

Fall is in full swing for Stem's clients — here's a quick peek at what everyone's been up to since our last update: Mike Myers, a corporate owned life insurance lawyer at McClanahan Myers Espey, launched a new website, Dead Peasants Insurance Frequently Asked Questions, at DeadPeasantInsurance.com.