Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first and second races at Florida's Gulf stream Park, paid Daily Double winners $4,580.70-biggest return in the track's history. Only 20 hunch players held $2 tickets; there were no other bettors on the unlikely combination of 30-1Corporal J. P. and70-1 Greco Pacific...
...York and Boston, with all those young Irish and Italians, they have all the vocations they want. And let's face it, a young man at 20 is a better investment than one at 50." Father Cavanagh's shopping finally took him to Bishop Charles P. Greco of Alexandria, La., where priests are needed. After a reasonable amount of time working under Bishop Greco, he hopes to be assigned his own parish, "to run his own show." But wherever his church sends him, Father Cavanagh will be happy "to do something for others. After all," says he, "there...
...students. The show commemorates the sooth anniversary of the artist's death, but it is also an attempt on the part of Spain to put Velásquez in proper focus. To the modern eye, his canvases have seemed somewhat static alongside the high drama of El Greco and the agonized intensity of Goya. Yet Velásquez sang a song of life as rich and full as any of his countrymen...
Though the influence of El Greco can be seen in the upward sweep of one of his rare religious paintings, The Virgin Placing the Chasuble on Saint Ildefonso (see color), Velásquez' style, stripped of the mannerism of his predecessors, was essentially his own. In his early years, when he painted scenes of ordinary life around him, his palette was somber; color was less important to him than the play of light and shadow and the arrangement of forms. His paintings rarely told a story, and whatever action there might be seemed almost always suspended. Yet his tipplers...
Realism Turns Unreal. He tirelessly sketched models of Greek and Roman statues, studied Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, and most of all, El Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...