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...find a counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from music, or from the grand gestures of English Actor Edmund Kean's playing of Shakespearean tragedies or the literary works (Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, Byron and Tas-so), noting in his journal, "Remember eternally certain passages from Byron to inflame your imagination...
...school's motto is no dried-up, impersonate Latin word like "Veritas," but a quotation from Byron: "She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies: and all that's best of light and dark, meet in the aspect of her eyes," which, as we are told, "is symbolic of the Academic Moderne graduate...
...constant attendance that he does not regard this as serious." 2:30 P.M. Murray Snyder summoned the press for a terse announcement: "The President has had a mild coronary thrombosis. He has been taken to Fitzsimons Army Hospital." 2:35 P.M. President Eisenhower, supported by General Snyder and Colonel Byron Pollock, chief of Fitzsimons' cardiac section, left the Doud house, walked to his limousine, and was driven to the hospital. Mrs. Eisenhower remained at home...
...Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...
...time." The wily huntress trapped him, held him three years. She claims to have torn up a letter in which he pledged her a life income of ?200, and she has only soft words for him in her Memoirs. After 15 years, she wrote her friend Lord Byron: "Don't despise me; nothing Lord Ponsonby has dearly loved can be vile or destitute of merit...