Word: constraint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...first year in the U.S. (after a youth of somber constraint in Nazi Germany) has shown me many wonderful and wondrous things. It was an especially great experience for me to read your factual and dispassionate contribution of "The Cat in the Kremlin" [TIME, July 17]. It made me perceive more acutely than ever before that truth is the powerful weapon of a strong country ... I hope that Americans will never cease to [appreciate] its vital necessity...