Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this age of specialization, the renaissance man is becoming hard to find. Yet, the curiosity of the most inventive thinkers in every field has always extended far beyond the limits of a single discipline. Leonardo Da Vinci is as famous for his inventions as for his paintings, and the story-teller Lewis Carroll was a pioneer in mathematics and photography. Meyer Schapiro, the 1967 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, combines this same curiosity and inventiveness with a profound, human sensitivity. While he is an art historian by profession he is conversant with subjects as diverse as semiotics and Freudian psychology...
...their contours. As his nudes grew ever more evanescent in powdery pastels, they also waxed ever more erotic. "His palette is like a strip of fog," said another artist. In time, Pascin perfected the art of sfumato, the soft, smoky blending of tones from light into dark practiced by Da Vinci...
Brazil's President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva is having a high old time. On a good will tour of the world, he has already visited Portugal, Belgium, Germany and France, where he went to the Lido but did not see De Gaulle. Last week he flew to Italy and was received by Pope Paul VI and Premier Aldo Moro, then winged on for Bangkok, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and finally New York and Washington, where he will stay in Blair House as the President's guest late this month. He will not return home...
...very hard to preview that because [Congress has just elected] a new president [Arthur da Costate Silva] who is also a general, who was minister of war, and who was forced upon Castelo Branco as a way of getting rid of Castelo Branco without disrupting the army unity. So they chose the minister of war and said. "You are going to be the next president." But still be is a general. He had some supporters and some enemies, but away he is different from Castelo atanco in his concept of government. BeCastgelo Branco is a so-called military intellectual, while...
...constitution, also has many authoritarian trends. I believe that as soon as da Costa Silva takes over he will be a strong popular movement towards a revision of the present constitution that Castelo Branco enforced...