Word: gayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth of the Christian church, shows that the Dark Ages knew glory...
...Paris cellars and bars. The famed Hot Club of Paris has its headquarters in a Pigalle courtyard with four walkways named Rue Armstrong, Rue Ellington, Rue Gillespie and, of course, Rue Bechet. Sidney, who set out on jazz street at ten playing the clarinet in some of the gayer New Orleans brothels, came to be regarded as one of the best jazzmen in the U.S., but never managed to make a steady living at it. Once he ran a pants-pressing establishment in Harlem and only made music after hours. "We done a helluva lot of pressing in the mornings...
...Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also feared artistic impotency. He once told a friend: "I am getting stale, and nervous of repeating myself. I ought to discover something...
...gems. Works of his maturity, they are joyous without being flippant, poignant yet optimistic. The first of the two sets of Brahms waltzes is the more widely known, perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although all the numbers are still...
...friend. Both are foreign-affairs specialists, both love travel and sailing. But Allen is no carbon copy of his older (by five years) brother. Says a longtime friend and associate of the Dulleses: "That mustache Allen wears is sort of symbolic of the difference in their personalities. Allen is gayer, more outgoing, less reserved, more of a raconteur...