Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month later-on Oct. 15, 1906-Cézanne was drenched by a thundershower which came up while he painted in a field. Within a few days he was dead. But his art was not. The huge Cézanne exhibition which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week-probably the largest ever to be seen in the U.S.-proved once again that his work had been infinitely better than the worried master dared hope...
...only recessive genes, and the effects, if any, should not show up until a recessive mates with a recessive). The investigators hunted for mutations among Hiroshima's fast-breeding fruit flies and plants-with inconclusive results. But they did receive reports of malformed babies (most of them born dead). The doctors were not able to make an accurate count, but they strongly suspected that some Hiroshima and Nagasaki mothers have secretly killed and disposed of grotesque offspring...
...thought he might be a new Mozart. He had one of Mozart's names, the same precocity, and a gift for melody. His ballet (The Snowman), composed when he was eleven, was produced in Vienna two years later. Before he was 20 he had written two operas. The Dead City, written at 23, won him fame throughout Europe, and a new star, Maria Jeritza, introduced it at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
Most of Conrad Richter's story might have been written by Booth Tarkington. In a transparent and innocent style he tells of Lucy Markle, a beautiful smalltown girl at the turn of the century remembered "in an old yellow snapshot." Because she had remained faithful to her dead lover, people admired her, for death and dignity were taken seriously then...
...period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...