Word: gay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed in red and green. All of Kasiulis' paintings are done in a technique that uses a jet-black-underpainted background to accentuate the lightness of the colors. And all his pictures, with the exception of six gay still lifes of flowers and fruit, deal with his favorite subject matter: slightly ridiculous but lovable lower-middle-class people, treated by the artist with gentle irony...
More likely than not this passive attitude stems from the sober University Hall as much as from any Harvard tradition of individuality. For within these gay walls the Rules and Regulations of Harvard College are made with great latitude...
Compliments from fellow writers are piled like clover on the jacket of Poet Randall Jarrell's first novel, Pictures from an Institution. "While busy at his mighty task, how gay he seems; how gay we are as we look on! How can we ever thank him?" asks Poetess Marianne Moore. "Immense fun to read," says Critic David Daiches. "A sparkling, damnably clever, wicked piece of work." "I am starting a fan club," bubbles Richard P. (7½ Cents) Bissell...
...royal Italian grandparents went into Egyptian exile in 1946, he followed them, had his first show in Alexandria. Now he lives on the Italian island of Ischia, painting dreamlike scenes from "a world that is forever gone and finished." His pictures are filled with sculptured formal gardens, marble statuary, gay toy balloons-and a fine, whimsical sense of humor. In Reverie, a classic marble statue, all played out from sailing a paper boat, lies sleeping near a river, still clutching in one hand a red string attached to the boat. In Tinned, Prince Henry packs delicate, dew-fresh red roses...
With Bach's Cantata No. 15 we were transported two days ahead to Easter Sunday. Trumpet, tympani fanfares and the gay laughter of one of the vocal ensembles are typical of this buoyant celebration of the Resurrection...