Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week in the halls of Congress, on the street corners, U.S. citizens had begun to talk about the possibility of war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...play-by-play. Said he: "The wife of the First Magistrate remained in the operating room, dressed in a white nurse's costume. ... She passed all this time praying to God for the success of the operation. The President preserved his serenity. . . . Some minutes after I had begun the operation, he was heard to say: 'What a pity! My poor dear descamisados whom I will not be able to see today...
...last week, on the 100th anniversary of the sculptor's birth, it was easy to see that, Henry Adams to the contrary, Saint-Gaudens had not been smothered. Manhattan's Century Association, a gathering place for arts and artists that have begun to gather dust, put on a private showing which highlighted the delicacy of his bas-reliefs and reached a rare pitch of portraiture in the stubble-bearded head of General Sherman-as melancholy and implacable as the head of a fighting cock...
...nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle Art Museum...
...There is so little story, and it is so simply and deeply germane to daily life, that it is hard to realize that most of it was re-enacted and that some of it was invented. The Grandfather is very anxious to repair and enlarge the house, which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair...