Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democracy" to fight his leftist regime, sent her female followers to bombard politicians with telegrams, letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers and was a factor in convincing Brazil's military to oust Goulart. A day after he fell, Doña Amélia did even better, drawing a record 1,000,000 people for a "March of Thanksgiving...
Plucking the silk strings claw-hammer fashion with his right hand, Eto drew an incisive, harplike sound from the koto. As if feeling a pulse, his left hand roamed the length of the instrument, deftly depressing the vibrating strings in order to vary tones and lend the tinge of melancholy that is the unique trait of the koto. The opening melody, sketched against a background of moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement...
With the aid of John Carl Warnecke, the San Francisco architect who was associated with the President, and who was to design his tomb, the family drew up a list of 19 outstanding architects. These men were asked to meet in Boston in April to help direct the choice of an architect for the Library. They were asked to submit photographs of what they considered their best works to Walton, who went over them with Jacqueline Kennedy. "She threw herself into it--she wanted to know whom she was meeting," Walton said...
...major canvases with crowds of jostling, uncongenial characters. Son of a Leipzig flour merchant, Beckmann was already a success at the age of 30 when World War I broke out. To avoid killing, he volunteered for the medical corps. Still, the constant exposure to slaughter, which he often drew, punctured his optimism so destructively that 30 years later he wondered if war had wounded his soul...
Altarpiece Billboards. "There is something that repeats itself in all good art," Beckmann said, "that is artistic sensuousness, combined with artistic objectivity toward the thing represented." Beckmann subjected even his nightmares to a harsh, objective light and portrayed them with a concrete reality that drew him acclaim, along with George Grosz and Otto Dix, as a leader of Neue Sachlichkeit, or new objectivity group...