Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing had come hard to Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The sun has not yet illuminated the arch of heaven nor begun to display his brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
When her doctor ordered her to rest from farm work because of her neuritis and arthritis, Grandma turned to painting, "to keep busy and out of mischief." A Manhattan art collector saw her work on display in a local drugstore, and the next year she had her first and fabulously successful New York show...
...fashionable Street of the Converts, however, Rome's modistes, having no urge toward martyrdom, prudently removed all bare midriff garments from their display windows. "I have two-piece suits for anybody who asks for them," said matronly Teresa Spizzichino. "They're made so as to hold any bosom tightly and cover both navel and-er-lower hind parts." Just the same, she admitted, the one-piece variety might be better. "Eventually the ladies will take to them, not because they like them better, but simply because no woman wants to run unnecessary risks. Getting into trouble with...
...business drove him to search for a new career; his increased taxes, which he believed were greater than any paid in England, gave him a sense of personal grievance; his ability to pay for wine and fireworks for his supporters made him popular; his vanity and his love of display made him malleable in the hands of politicians; his property helped to make the revolution seem respectable, and his essential conservatism made him a valuable check against the radicals...
...museums keep up with the times? And are the times worth keeping up with? Last week, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, gallery-goers could see for themselves. Answers to both questions were on display: 64 paintings that U.S. museums had bought during the past two years...