Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of Moore's art form has twisted and turned throughout human history; it has run across shallows and been slowed-but never stopped. And after each stagnant period it has moved again in full flow. In ancient Rome the statuary was a way of life, as much a part of the city as the humans who walked the streets. That way of life seemed ended when the barbaric Goths came pillaging, leaving behind them ruins of Roman art. But the Goths themselves, even while deriving from the Romans, gave their name to an art form that took...
...dressed up in a circle pin, a pearl necklace, an orchid and an ageless smile, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses handled a silver knife with the art that comes from practice. She was cutting birthday cake...
...face a difficult task. More than a few of the 50 competitors have studied under Salzedo and many are sure to play at least one of the master's compositions. It could be no other way. At 74, the sprightly Basque musician stands at the top of his art, a man who has spent a lifetime studying "the angels' instrument." teaching others to play and the world to enjoy its mellow music. Salzedo. says Conductor Leopold Stokowski, "has expanded our whole understanding of the harp...
...first book. The Ten Thousand Things, showed up in the U.S. last year (TIME. March 3). it seemed too good to be true: an I-remember-I-remember exercise in graceful recollection that almost never stumbled into teary nostalgia. Her second book simply proves once again that no art is so sweet as artlessness, no truth so substantial as simple truth...
FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (2) 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (4) 3. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence ( 1 ) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (7) 6. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (5) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 8. California Street, Busch 9. The Cave, Warren 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (9) NONFICTION 1. For 2? Plain, Golden (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (4) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson...