Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, these celestial phenomena were old stuff even to Tacitus more than 2,000 years ago. He accurately caught the mental climate they flourish in by writing: "Prodigies which were now noised about from various sources increased men's terror. It was said that . . . from the temple of Juno there had rushed forth a form greater than the form of man; that the statue of the Divine Julius, which stands on an island in the Tiber, had turned from the West to the East on a calm and tranquil day ; that an ox had spoken aloud in Etruria . . . besides...
...Want to Flourish." Outwardly, Gwen John was as reticent as her painting. Inwardly, her life was one of intense feeling, rebellion and search. She was a spinster who became the mistress of Sculptor Auguste Rodin, an agnostic who turned to the Roman Catholic Church. In his new book, Modern English Painters, published last week, Sir John Rothenstein devotes a chapter to Gwen John, tells much of her story for the first time...
...left home to study art with her brother Augustus in London. "We shared a room together," remembers Augustus, "subsisting like monkeys on a diet of fruit and nuts." Gwen soon crossed to Paris. She wrote her brother: "There are people like plants who cannot flourish in the cold, and I want to flourish...
...they had a life of their own. But lice have been bird parasites as long as birds have been birds. They probably sucked the blood of reptiles from which birds developed. When reptiles' scales turned into birds' feathers, the lice learned to graze and flourish on the new crop...
...black alike, chopping their victims with axes and leaving the bodies to be carried away by the night soil removers. In the Rand goldfields, police estimate, there are three murders every two days; in the concrete "locations" where the black miners live, separated from their families, prostitution and sodomy flourish...