Word: gem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What of the individual performances? It will come as no surprise that Siobhan McKenna's Viola is a gem. Someone once wrote that Violas are born, not made; and Miss McKenna is clearly a born Viola. She is a great enough actress not to have to worry that, at her first entrance, she not only doesn't move under her own power but is completely unconscious...
After reading the Art section in the March 16 issue, with the illustration of the "masterpiece" by Barcelona Abstractionist Antoni Tapies called Grey Borders, I went out quickly to my car. On the floor I found a similar "artistic gem." I had always known my treasure as the floor...
...because few countries in the world have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions at war within him. "In the East [of Germany]," as he has described it, "a meditative bent tinged with melancholy, a heightened consciousness of duty and personal...
...Japanese paper fans, and most of all to modern engineering in glass and concrete. Yamasaki puts precision over ornamentation and lets nature collaborate to provide most of the beauty. The sunlight falling through pyramids of glass makes a constantly changing flow of light through the lobby of his architectural gem...
Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A polished biography of an un cut gem of a woman, Sir Winston's ancestress, Sarah Churchill, who helped make the 18th century glitter...