Word: exhibited
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...this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci towered over the masters of the Italian Renaissance. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, chosen from 63 collections, including Leningrad's world-famous Hermitage (see color pages). At the same time, Rotterdam's Boymans Museum is exhibiting 268 of Rembrandt's drawings. Best testimony to Rembrandt...
Since that time he has lived in Argentina and produced some nine plays, all of which exhibit the optimism, poetry, and drama that have endowed his life with a richness beyond what his Spanish environment could warrant. From Casona's early ventures in poetry we see in all his later work a romantic, fictitious atmosphere, sprinkled with metaphors and emotional stimuli...
...going on, however, fairgoers and critics were at a loss to say. The Russians, back in their refurbished Muscovite pavilion for the first time since 1932, drew the biggest crowds. But the official, Stalin-period art (stocky peasant girls laughingly sheafing wheat) soon drove them away. The U.S. exhibit (TIME, June 18), which collected no prizes, was a hit, mainly because it stuck to one theme: "The City.'' Best that could be said: the Biennale was immense...
...painting, however, the preponderance of entries were clearly non-traditional in conception and execution. This was evidently a good thing, for the exhibit was as a whole the finest yet in its category...
...ways. Melville's words suffer somewhat from the drawling, rather lazy articulation that the Captain gives them. There is also a certain loss of credibility, since Peck's businesslike exhortations to the crew could not conceivably move them to the state of excitement that director John Huston has them exhibit. More important, the movie's phlegmatic Ahab could never, never be the magnetic, crazed, God-challenging hero of Melville's book--the character on whom the essence of the novel's supernatural, symbolical, and philosophical meaning is based. With Peck as Ahab, Moby Dick becomes just another fish story...