Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, Clara Jo was promoting the Easter Seal drive of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. As he saw the little girl laboriously making her way into his office on heavy steel braces and pink crutches that matched her well-starched dress, the President uttered an involuntary gasp. He started toward the girl as if to pick her up and carry her to his desk, then checked himself and said in a firmly encouraging tone: "That's a good job, a very good...
Oswald Spengler. that grand and gloomy chronicler of The Decline of the West, once remarked that Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the last gasp of great Western painting. What Spengler failed to see was that Manet was not an end but a beginning. With a single picture, displayed at the Paris Salon of 1865, Manet fueled an artistic revolution that has shaped the course of modern art, for better or for worse, for nearly a century. At the core of the whole hurly-burly that rages through the art world today is the artistic proposition raised by Manet...
...excellent cast-Franchot Tone, Lillian Gish, Ethel Waters, Janice Rule-was able to suggest the last-gasp despairs of a dying order in the Old South, but the violence that flashes only fitfully in the novel seemed too concentrated to be real in the TV play...
...praise and even to envy his neutralist counterpart in Europe, for if he himself had walked the tightrope of peaceful coexistence without accident thus far. Tito was doing it with a careless bravura that far outstripped him. Even observers from the warring camps below had been forced to gasp once or twice during the last few weeks as the Yugoslav seemed dangerously near to falling from his wire on one side or the other. But the very day that Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived in Belgrade, a U.S. Senate committee approved a $40.5 million grant to Tito. That was breathless balancing...
...afraid of the past. He drew from an extreme variety of sources, thereby established a broad and solid base for his own experiments.* Manet's reworkings of Hals, Goya and Giorgione, among others, led Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler to regard his work as the last gasp of great Western painting, yet his experiments caused Andre (The Voices of Silence) Malraux to call him the first modern artist. Perhaps he was both; certainly his Lunch on the Grass (opposite) stands as a kind of pylon in painting history...