Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls on the walls of the White House. Hosanna...
...Halo of Heat. Van Gogh did the picture at Aries, on Dec. 7, 1888, in the small hours of a restless night. He had been obsessed, he wrote his brother Theo, by a dream of painting himself by candlelight. He got up, lit a candle, put on his old green jacket and began to paint furiously; about three hours later he stopped, leaving the lower fourth of the portrait unpainted. Even unfinished, it was a work exploding with energy. Out of the dark haft of the body the bony head leaped like a candle flame; the face, green-eyed...
...trouble is, says Korzybski, that men too often get the steps of this process mixed up. They speak before observing, then react to their own. verbalization as if it were the fact itself. They confuse what is "inside-the-skin" with external reality. They say "the leaf is green," without realizing that the greenness is within them...
...ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive Fremstad, who sang (but did not dance) the U.S. premiere of Salome in 1907. And she carried the rest of the cast into the spirit of the thing with...
Married. Pauline Betz, 29, green-eyed, red-haired U.S. tennis queen (four-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles: 1942-43-44-46), who turned professional nearly two years ago; and Robert Addie, 38, sports columnist for the Washington Times-Herald; in Los Angeles...