Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop my painting, and hurriedly got my huge beach umbrella and my raincoat. I protected my legs with a portfolio, the wind holding it in place. And so I painted with my nose almost on the paper, with thunder crashing, boughs breaking and rain falling in torrents. A glorious few hours when I seemed to become part of the elements. When I was done at late afternoon, the picture was complete. It seemed as if it had materialized under its own power...
...Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light...
...December issue of The Atlantic Menzel described the history of the universe as "indefinite expansion, the flashing of fireworks, a glorious blaze, followed by oblivion...
...Cathie Hornbrook, whose growth to maturity forms the basis of the narrative, are both orphaned children living in the home of their stern and God-fearing Aunt Sarah. Cathie holds a dream that her father, in reality an unreliable adventure-seeker, will return to her as a rich and glorious king. She never completely rejects this dream until the moment of her death. Tom is both disturbed by and attracted to Cathie throughout their childhood, and at times almost abandons himself to her him has been a long time in the brewing...
...better than our neighbors, this onetime far-spread movement is dying out, and it really is a pity. Perhaps, when the political weakness of the French has been overcome, there will be a good chance for a union between France and Germany. Let's hope that one glorious day it will become a reality...