Word: broods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal of the 1885 version of the soap opera must have been strong, for either grandmother or one of her brood carefully preserved A Friendly Turn in the commodious family Bible...
...Heritages Resurgent. The sons of the revolution appear to have learned to cherish equally their Indian and Spanish Christian heritages. Having accepted their past, they are ceasing to brood over it. Today it is fashionable in Mexico to collect pre-Columbian art, to dabble in archaeology, to wear Indian costumes and to study Indian customs. At the same time the Roman Catholic Church, long suppressed and persecuted by anticlerical revolutionists, is resurgent in Mexico. All over the country new modern churches are rising to replace those wrecked in the revolution. Nuns and priests wear their habits and cassocks in public...
...think he is ready yet for figure work, has deliberately concentrated on landscapes and a low-keyed palette until he feels he has a solid background. "There's no good dithering here and dithering there." says Reynolds. "Versatility is a horrible word. You draw and you brood and you try to get something fundamental. Discipline and restraint are the things that count. That is unless you want an emotional orgy...
...William Brood '55 of Weston and Leverett House will become associate manager for next reason. The winner of the freshman competition was Thomas Ingram '56, of Lake Forest, III. and Wigglesworth Hall...
...walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known with the smallest disposition to do anything for themselves...