Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holes & Torsos. Even in its final form, the result would horrify a Michelangelo or, only 50 years ago, a Rodin. But today, Henry Moore's massive, pinheaded women with gaping holes in their torsos adorn public buildings or parks in a dozen cities and occupy places of honor in 53 museums over most of the world, including 14 in the U.S. At a recent showing in the small city of Galle, Ceylon, a crowd of 10,000 flocked to see his works in three days. A traveling show of 22 Moore pieces and 25 drawings will open next month...
...Greek, Hebrew, Moslem and Christian pholosophies. All 12 volumes have been written, five have already been published and two more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts will eventually be reworked and published...
Perhaps an analogy can be made with so many of those flourishing beards which adorn the freshman class, more resplendent than Schweitzer's but less natural and less the sign of wisdom. The challenge which Levine will ultimately have to face is that very true aphorism of Andre Gide's, "Patina is the reward of masterpieces...
...that became fashionable ear ly in the 20th century - "A man is as old as his arteries" - may have to be revised to "A man is as old as his enzymes." Then, as researchers unravel the mys teries of enzyme chemistry, enzyme supplements for mature men and women may adorn the breakfast table, instead of the currently popular but cruder vitamins...
...funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones), it is thoroughly suffused with Stravinskyan trademarks-harmonic juxtapositions, rhythmic ingenuities-that adorn such earlier works as Les Noces and Symphony of Psalms...