Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff. Crossing the Potomac into Virginia, the procession stopped at the cemetery gate, where an iron-tired Army caisson with six grey horses waited to carry to the grave the body of the statesman, sometime (1917-18) major, U.S. Army. With an Army-Navy-Air Force color-guard marching ahead, and the flag of the U.S. Secretary of State flying bravely behind, the caisson rolled slowly up the hill to the grave site on a grassy knoll near a yellowwood tree...
...Britain had issued a directive to Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower: "You will enter the Continent of Europe and . . . undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces." Eisenhower looked at the lowering sky and made his fateful decision to go ahead. Now to the captive peoples of Western Europe came his voice of hope: "The hour of your liberation is approaching!" This, 15 years ago this week, was DDay. The results of that day's work are known wherever man draws breath. Almost forgotten is how precariously the power and the glory...
...Reid is the only visitor. He has written letters to their wives and mothers, once shipped a body back home to Indiana. He has twice saved men by persuading officials to reopen their cases, has been begged by longtime dwellers on death-house row to get their executions set ahead...
Although no amount of post-mortem analysis can altogether remove the aura of a grand failure from Carles's work, it now appears, in retrospect, that Carles stood so alone because he was so far ahead. As a young man he had gone to Paris, fallen under the spell first of Edouard Manet and then the postimpressionists, sipped coffee with Matisse and Brancusi. Back home in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1917 to 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Carles slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors...
...late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered on until his death at 70 in 1952, he never painted again. Said his daughter, Painter Mercedes Matter, "His entire work was characterized by this impetuous moving on toward what he perceived further ahead. From one point of view he could be considered a failure, since there were few places in which he stopped sufficiently to consolidate his position and produce successfully...