Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best artists in the show were among the youngest. Twenty-five-year-old Renzo Vespignani's melancholy pen & ink drawings of the debris of Fascist Rome, and 23-year-old Marcello Muccini's Bull, as sharp and simple as a pair of murderous horns, held their own beside the work of their elders. Italian art had survived Fascism, the exhibition proved beyond a doubt. It was at least as lively as that of the U.S., Britain and France; and, on the evidence of the younger painters, there was more to come...
Said Milles, who considers the statue one of the best things he has ever done: "Greek and other artists always depicted Pegasus with the rider on his back, while I visualize the poet flying independently . . . both animal and man having expressions of longing for something, we don't know what . . ." A few visitors called Pegasus the most improbable thing they had ever seen in their lives; many more gasped in sheer admiration...
Warren launched a Golden Wedding Club to counteract the divorce wave, borrowed graduation dresses for high-school girls who could not afford them, helped raise $55,000 for a clubhouse for the Indoor Sports, an organization of shut-ins. He became San Diego's best-known newspaperman, and one of its best-loved citizens. Four years ago, when the rival Journal hired him away from the Union, hundreds of readers came with him to follow his new column, "People We Know...
...festival, which came to an end this week, was a cultural rather than a popular or financial success. Hutchins had set the spiritual tone of the gathering: "The major concern of thoughtful citizens today is the lack of serious consideration for the application ... of the basic human standards best represented in the humanities-philosophy, religion, ethics-and the social sciences...
Casey Stengel was floating on a fleecy cloud. In his managerial cubbyhole at Yankee Stadium, Casey reclined dreamily upon a sofa, his short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of the words. Last week, at the season's halfway mark, his New York Yankees were leading the American League by six games...