Word: impetuousity
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She paints with freewheeling, impetuous brush strokes. Yet her stimulus stems from what she sees. "It's a quality of color that leads me into the painting," says she. "I start with the sky and everything seems to develop out of it." Her skies are rarely blue. Especially in...
Lebensraum with a View. Haunting Hess's mind was a compulsive fear and hatred of Communist Russia. For years Hess was under the spell of Professor Karl Haushofer, the geopolitical genius of Naziism who provided Hitler with his slogan of Lebensraum as a pretext for aggression. Hitler was parroting...
Died. Charles Hopkinson, 93, dean of U.S. portrait artists; in Manchester, Mass. A proper Bostonian known as the "court painter of Harvard" for his precise oils of Presidents Charles W. Eliot (his uncle), Abbott Lawrence Lowell and James B. Conant, Hopkinson dashed off impetuous watercolors for pleasure, but turned a...
When the Philharmonic commissioned the symphony in 1960, Schuman was still president of the Juilliard School of Music. The composing took him, Schuman computes, 645 hours and 30 minutes, and he finished it last June. The symphony was a typically Schuman-crafted product: powerful, impetuous, rhythmically complex and grindingly dissonant...
Last May, when Jordan's impetuous King Hussein, 25, married 20-year-old Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British army officer, his subjects were so restive that Toni was pointedly denied the rank of Queen and no less pointedly given the Moslem name, Muna al Hussein ("Wish of Hussein...