Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday, how do I say to you which way they go? This week Composer Bennett performs a clarinet concerto dedicated to Benny Goodman, who once played under him in a theatre orchestra. Next week: repetition of an earlier "music-box opera," based on the ballad Clementine. The week after...
...Inquisition by labeling them with trite moral maxims. On the walls of churches he gave angels the faces of well-known prostitutes, growling as he did so: "I will cause the faithful to worship vice." He painted bag-bellied Queen Maria Luisa as a superannuated barmaid, made her portraits glow with the oily iridescence of decay. When he drew the peasants, soldiers, beggars and trollops who swarmed in Madrid's dusty streets, he was less subtle, but no less furious. When, on the bloody Second of May (1808) Napoleon's General Murat. with 25,000 French soldiers, massacred...
...faded, invalid nobles, Quixotic bishops and hagridden monks were pigments for his palette. Himself a mystic, he painted the tortured, visionary aspirations of his subjects, seared the flesh further from their hollow cheeks, elongated their bodies till they looked like trembling candle flames, lit like flickering shadows in the glow of the Inquisition. The best painter in all Spain, Theotokopoulos became wealthy, got himself a 24-room palace, a beautiful wife named Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas, a scholar's library, musicians from Venice to play for him at mealtimes. But to the Spaniards...
Down to Earth. Many an astronomer believes that the glow of the aurora borealis ("northern lights") is due to bombardments of electric particles from the sun, which agitate atoms in the upper air to the glow point. For a long time the spectrum lines corresponding to the auroral colors were called "forbidden lines'' because they could not be reproduced in the laboratory. Last week Drs. Joseph Kaplan and S. M. Ruben of U. C. L. A. told how they brought the auroral colors down to earth. They put gas molecules in a tube, stirred them up with...
Loring Andrews, former teacher of astronomy here, tried to pour oil on troubled waters with an article in the M.I.T. Review. He suggested that the comet had been coming this way for 2000 years, and was too tired to glow. Its last appearance here, he said, "was probably about the time Archimedes was crying 'Eureka...