Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibition stresses the work of Prud'hon, Ingres, Gericault, Chasseriau, Millet, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. It also includes a portrait of Marie Stuart by Jean de Court and portraits by Francois Clouet which have been lent to the Museum...
...poet under 40. When he settles down to guzzle beer, which is most of the time, his incredible yarns tumble over each other in a wild Welsh dithyramb in which truth and fact become hopelessly smothered in boozy invention. He borrows with no thought of returning what is lent, seldom shows up on time, is a trial to his friends and a worry to his family. But let him sit down to the job of making a poem, and he becomes as conscientious as a medieval stonecutter...
...strutted and beamed. Some 400 children romped in the Sala Farnese-some in 18th century costumes, some dressed as little workers, with appropriate red masks. Outside, Margherita Gardens lay silent and deserted under a foot of snow, while the cardinal gloomed at home. With the long, austere days of Lent stretching ahead, it looked as if there would be no carnival that year...
...Second Round. The cardinal thought long & hard, decided to risk an unconventionality. He rescheduled his carnival for the middle of Lent...
There was a church called Community Church, and it was John Hancock's kind of institution. It recognized that religion was hollow without social principles, and it liked to sponsor men with ideas about society--all kinds of ideas, from conservative to radical. A few of the men had lent their ideas to groups some congressional committees had said were "subversive." But, like John Hancock, the Church was not afraid of freedom of speech. Its members liked the chance to make up its own minds. The Community Church won a respected place among Boston's institutions...