Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daring statement, for Giotto was not only one of the most brilliant artists of the Renaissance but was also a leader in the movement to introduce three dimensional backgrounds in painting. Up to then, pictures were painted against flat back-grounds...
Statements. Less analytical people confined themselves to flat statements. Onetime-Governor Edward C. Stokes of New Jersey was first into print with the classical ". . . as Cincinnatus was called from the plow...
Having thus broadly, as he said, "interpreted" the Empire, Mr. Baldwin went on to make a flat appeal to Canadians to buy British goods...
...quickly disposed of Novelist Lewis, the "romantic" figure, by revealing that he had never before been up in an airplane. At the Berlin flying field, "everything in life be came wildly different from the nor mal, mousy existence of a literary gent mooching about his garden or his words." flat, writing words, words...
...Poet. Born in Pittsburgh, 40 years ago, he was schooled in Europe until 15. His parents moved to California where he studied medicine at various universities but never with the deep interest he had in poetry. His early work, Californians, is of a surprisingly flat, "native son" variety...