Word: broodingness
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Such was his fame in England that Canaletto's patrons persuaded him to stay there and paint their murky land. His precise, atmospheric views of London, painted in the 1740s and '50s, helped shape English landscape painting, lured later artists such as Turner and Whistler to Venice to...
Charlie Mingus is a short, hulking, brooding man who for years has been recognized as the greatest jazz virtuoso ever to thump a bass fiddle. At the Monterey Jazz Festival last week, his Meditations for a Pair of Wire Cutters demonstrated that he must be ranked among the greatest of...
Because the conservative sponsors of the New York festival offer no prizes, horse trading and razzmatazz are minimal. Opening night was a sober, even stately occasion, geared to the Slavic measures of Hamlet, Soviet Director Kozintsev's 21-hour epic in collaboration with Pasternak, Shostakovich and Shakespeare. Some viewers...
In an upper gallery of the Cow Palace, Maryland Republican David Scull, a candidate for Congress in the November elections, sat brooding as Barry Goldwater's juggernaut flattened the G.O.P.'s moderates. "Only a quarter of the country is Republican," scowled Scull, "and only a third of the...
Crisis of Identity. In Light in August, Faulkner demonstrated how the preoccupation with race can make it tragically impossible for a man to know who he really is, and dramatized the mindless virulence of white reaction to miscegenation. Joe Christmas, the book's hell-ridden hero, is a remarkably...