Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ballet of One. "It was our good fortune," the writer recalls, "to witness the most unpredictable of ballets, a dance of dedicated ferocity, the grave elaboration of a magic rite. In the hodgepodge of paint tubes by the hundreds, of brushes as long as halberds, of spilt oil cans, Mathieu, demiurge of destiny, summoned onto his canvas in a few hours (exactly the time taken by the fighting) first the army of the King of France . . . then the armies of the coalition; above there spurted onto the canvas splashes of larger characters and many colors, used for their own sake...
...dreamed of the day when he might be declared Carol's rightful heir. Mircea learned artistic bookbinding and made his modest way by peddling his skill among the booksellers along Paris' Quai de la Tournelle. In 1952 Zizi died. A year later, Carol followed her to the grave. Their son Mircea, 35, was left alone with a baby son, who was, like Mircea, the relic of an impulsive and broken marriage...
...Catholic Jurists, Pope Pius XII reminded the lawyers that however hard it may be even for theologians to believe it, eternal punishment is a dogmatic fact. "Revelation and the teaching authority of the Church clearly establish that after the end of this earthly life, those who are burdened with grave guilt will receive from the Most High God a judgment and an execution of penalty from which there is no liberation or condonation. God could, in the next life, also remit such a punishment; everything depends on His free will; but He has never granted it and will never...
...with in the grave...
...heavy machines, capable of reorganizing agriculture, can be the only material basis of socialism," he said. "This Lenin line was followed under Stalin's leadership, is being followed at present, and will be followed in future." He branded the more-consumer-goods faction as saboteurs. "This is a grave mistake, alien to the spirit of Marxist-Leninist reasoning ... It is a belching of rightist deviation, a belching of views hostile to Leninism which were once propagated by Rykov and Bukharin."* Though Khrushchev did not identify just who could have belched such dreadful views, all his hearers knew that among...