Word: exclaiming
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...Orangerie des Tuileries exhibit of a masterpiece-studded collection lent by Manhattan's Robert Lehman. Delighted Paris art lovers and tourists swarmed to the exhibit by the thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well selected, so indicative of a really superior taste in art." For the story of the limelight-shunning banker-collector who brought off the show, see ART, An American in Paris...
More than 600,000 tourists swarmed into Washington to enjoy the esthetic pleasures of the Japanese cherry blossoms. Massachusetts' Republican Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, moved by the daffodils on her House Restaurant table, arose to exclaim: "They were like sunshine, and gladdened our eyes and hearts." The President of the U.S. could almost picture the jonquils around his Gettysburg farmhouse as he led the exodus for the three-day weekend that was the spring standard for official Washington...
Owen made two passes, wheeled gracefully over San Fernando Valley for another. The third run was never completed. At Santa Monica, tower operators heard Copilot Archie Twitchell's shocked voice exclaim from the DC-7B: "Midair collision! Midair collision!" Through a burst of radio interference came his agonized report: "We're going down! Uncontrollable! Uncontrollable!" After 34 years, Old-timer Twitchell understood the odds. His last message, clear and calm: "Say goodbye to everybody...
...Bernstein did not come to the aid of Composer Bernstein, it might never get played at all. The main case that can be made against his music is that it is eclectic?and Bernstein knows it. Sometimes, when he hears a piece of music he particularly likes, he will exclaim: "God, that's wonderful. I must write something like it." He can put on any musical mask he chooses: he has successfully written boogie-style pop tunes and a seven-minute piece of medieval polyphony for The Lark. His musical manner is modern, but it lacks the uncompromising dissonance...
...Ryder, Homer and Eakins. Ryder saw life as something of a dream, Homer as a struggle, and Eakins as a solemn commitment. Each pictured it as he saw it, with complete integrity, so their works are as different as morning, noon and night. Yet each can make the viewer exclaim, "IVe seen that!" Their strong recognition value bespeaks a reverence for reality common to all three...