Word: dove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Garfield Dove owed his given names to the Republican presidential ticket* of 1880, the year he was born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...
...first. Dove painted in the style of Cézanne. But later, he would omit what he called "innumerable little facts" to try for the essence of the subject. Thus he could paint Clouds and Summer (see color) in a way that told much about all clouds and every summer...
...Dave Morse worked Kelly for the Crimson's second walk to open the inning. He stole second, and went to third when Al Martin flied deep to left. Then Charlie Ravenel tried a squees bunt. Kelly raced in and tossed to catcher Phil Arsenault, who dove after the sliding Morse. The umpire's arm shot up, and the Crimson bench was empty in a second. It was no use. The game resumed-with Yale still ahead--and Phil Berstein grounded to second...
With Lehrman's encouragement, Josh studied the ring dove, a small, brownish bird found only under domestication. A point of note about the male ring dove is that he inflates his esophagus (gullet) and bows when making his cooing sound before target females. Experts on animal behavior have assumed that the courting actions are all part of a single instinctive pattern fixed within the brain. When such a pattern is released, it must go through its full course-in this case, throat swelling, cooing and bowing...
...called "the laziest nation in the world; I foresee a generation which will never get out of bed. I advise as many English musicians as possible to leave the country." Married three times-the last time to his 27-year-old secretary, who made him "coo like the proverbial dove"-Sir Thomas always professed surprise at his fearsome reputation. "I am," he would say, "a peaceful and harmless man." The whole trouble was that most people did not "give a rap" about music: "It is a parasitical luxury supported...