Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brighten things up, Feisal last week decreed a little innocent amusement for his people. Said his royal announcement: "We are going to build five cinemas in major cities within six months; we are setting up a television network; we are authorizing clubs of all kinds-cultural, educational, social and business...
...Veterans Day last week, the sun had risen to brighten woodsy Westport, in Connecticut's suburban Fairfield County. It was a holiday for schoolchildren and some of their parents. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Westport looked just like the sort of place people think of when they want to epitomize a sophisticated, upper-middle-income suburban community. Manhattan is only 52 miles away, but Westport. with its carefully tended property and its comfortable homes, seems impervious to the cacophony of city life...
...brighten up your Christmas cards
Movie Star Dina Merrill has parts aplenty to occupy her working hours, three sparkling children to brighten her home life, a few well-bred lines in the Social Register, and enough money to buy Hollywood-her mother is Marjorie Post May of the $100 million Post Toasties fortune, and her husband. Stanley Rumbough, gets a big squeeze from the Colgate toothpaste tube. To top it off, an extra little bibelot has now come Deenie's way. "As a token of affection," both her father-in-law and mother-in-law, whose deaths came four months apart, left her bequests...
...begins with the somber, subdued tones of the classic Dutch artists. But his study of Rubens' paintings in Antwerp and his overwhelming need to escape the disaster of his personal life in the joy of his art together served to brighten his palette. By the end of his life, when his thoughts were concentrated almost exclusively on eluding madness by pouring himself forth in paint with all the joy he could evoke, his color reaches its peak of vibrant warmth and his canvas achieves its greatest vitality--almost more living than life itself...