Word: chillness
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Veronese got his name from his birthplace, Verona, but Venice was home to him. His art is a somewhat overblown flowering of the great tradition of Venetian painting -a tradition which Giovanni Bellini, the teacher of Titian and Giorgione, founded. For the chill, narrow intensity of earlier Venetian art, these men substituted warmth, breadth and grace. Critic Antoine Orliac once summed up Veronese in a scholarly line: "He is the expression of hieratic constraint relaxing into luminous activity...
...Chill. Last week, on the very morning when Maher was to meet Britain's Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson to begin talks on settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, the Briton developed a sudden "chill" and sent his regrets to Maher by messenger. On medical grounds the chill was somewhat inexplicable, since Sir Ralph, hale & hearty, had been seen playing a rousing game of cricket only the day before. On diplomatic grounds it was easily explained: King Farouk himself had asked the Briton to call off the talks, since he was about to sack the Premier. Maher called a hasty...
...Chill winds, frozen tundras, and a dollar a day wage appeal to at least 23 University students. A representative of the U.S. Weather Bureau yesterday interviewed that number of juniors, seniors, and graduate students who wish to work as assistants in Arctic weather stations this summer...
This affront to the boss sent a chill through the regular Democrats, who were already cool toward Kefauver. Truman pointedly observed that Kefauver is a good Senator and he likes to see good Senators in the Senate...
According to Nature. Cézanne liked to say that what he saw in nature was "the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone," though what he painted was hardly so chill or so simple. The cubists took their cue from his words, called him a father of modern art. Cézanne would not have appreciated the intended compliment; theories bored him, and his pictures were translations of what he saw, not demonstrations of what he thought...