Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacques Villon so that his disapproving father, a provincial lawyer, would not know that he was neglecting the law for art. Now, at 76, he has a solid place among France's old guard modernists. In such recent canvases as La Grande Faucheuse aux Chevaux he uses brighter colors than in early days, but sticks to his conviction that nature is most interesting when reduced to blocks...
...science could offer little or no comfort. They were victims of generalized cancers such as leukemia (in the blood stream) or the spreading type of Hodgkin's disease (in the lymph nodes). Now there is at least good reason for hoping that their lives can be made both brighter and longer...
...last of Rodgers & Hart's triumphs together, Rodgers' tunes were never suaver, wittier, more engaging-whether in such favorites as Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I Could Write a Book or in such a mocking female duet as Take Him. Seldom were Hart's lyrics brisker, brighter, more uninhibited, enabling Elaine Stritch -for one example-to stop the show with Zip, a spoof of a striptease...
...college students who took the draft deferment test last spring, 63% passed. Where did the brighter boys come from? Last week, after looking over the scores of a representative sampling of freshmen, President Henry Chauncey of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. gave the answer...
Corning's play, incidentally, was one of the brighter spots last night. Time and again he foiled B.C. breakaways, besides blocking many difficult screen shots. Those three third period scores came: one, after a wild goal mouth scramble; two, after two Crimson men bumped each other out of the play, leaving Corning to face three Eagles alone; and three, after Corning had been trap- ped and pinned outside the crease, while Captain Dusty Burke tried unsuccessfully to hold off the Eagle drive...