Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon papers had provoked new debate over secrecy in government. To many, both in and out of government, the documents' publication proved that government security was as leaky as a sieve, thereby endangering U.S. capability of dealing privately with other nations. Actually, the opposite conclusion could be drawn from the fact that the report-the work of more than 30 people-did not come to even semipublic attention for years. At any rate, the mission to Peking proved that the U.S. Government can almost always outfox the world, and especially the press, when it so chooses. Clearly, secrecy...
...fine 50-piece orchestra that Boudreau builds anew each summer with young (average age: 23) wind and percussion players from all over the U.S. and, this year, Japan and Canada. It may not match the luxurious silkiness of the Philadelphia Orchestra, but then it has no strings attached. Drawn from 300 to 400 auditioners a year, the orchestra is a crisp, vibrant sounding ensemble that can give its conductor just about anything he wants. What Boudreau wants is as much style and excitement in an electronic-and-live composition as in a Richard Rodgers medley, and he invariably gets...
...Keats' vision of embalmed darkness and sunburnt mirth, and it was a world palpably created by the Murphys. For nearly a decade, artists of all sorts enjoyed a respite from their messy lives in the company of Gerald and Sara. Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Cole Porter-all were drawn to the couple before the Fitzgeralds arrived in France...
...bold novel that, all things considered, is surprisingly successful. Doctorow's biggest gamble was sinking his energies into the Rosenberg case in the first place. Not that successful fiction cannot spring from old newspapers, as Dostoevsky and Dreiser both demonstrated. But the Rosenberg trial was a kind of drawn-out, draining and rather grisly national ordeal...
...across Europe included two trips to Venice, and were capped by a yearlong sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included Erasmus himself. Later he commemorated his meeting with Erasmus by a portrait that was drawn, according to its inscription, "from the living figure." In fact it was done from Dürer's memory and another artist's portrait, and Erasmus thought it a poor likeness...