Word: broodingness
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Stars & Courage. Garroway gave up his Today show (NBC) after his wife s sudden death in 1961. He spent the first months of his absence brooding aimlessly until his four-year-old son, as he relates solemnly told him to "get up and walk until you drop"-undoubtedly the most...
The Man from Brooklyn. In desperation the Packers turned to Vince Lombardi. a bristling, brooding bear of a man who was supposed to know football but had never held a major head coaching job before. He seemed hardly the type to coach in a bumptious, boisterous north woods town. He...
Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French...
A TIME OF GODS, photographs by Roloff Beny, notes by John Lindsay Opie (272 pp.; Viking; $20). A picture essay that lives up to its considerable pretension. Photographer Beny, a 37-year-old Canadian, has fitted brooding, atmospheric studies of Greece - the stones, the sea, the sky-to a running...
The three Rembrandts given to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford (see overleaf) show a moody trio. The young artist is lost to everything but his own thoughts. The gentle Saskia shows two complementary aspects of Rembrandt: the artist who could look into his wife's mind and yet remain...