Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who treasure taste, Louis is the label for some of the world's greatest antiques. France's Louis XVI lent his name to a revival of Greco-Roman décor. Louis XV ruled in a time when furniture makers shunned the straight line, and Louis XIV, the Sun King, is still a synonym for sumptuousness. Now antiques addicts are turning back to an even earlier Louis-the 13th-whose style furnished France when it was becoming the first great nation in Europe...
...countries and refined them with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis XIII knew art lent dignity to the Crown. His style was spreading, iron hand in velvet glove with nationalism, while France pioneered the idea of the modern, absolute state. Something of this marriage of vigor and elegance remain the style's touchstone to this day and the underlying reason for its appeal...
Miss Steele wrote a number of articles and notes on Keats for scholarly journals. She frequently lent time and assistance to other students of her specialized field...
Then, as now, matchless, hordes of photographers lent their skills to the beautification of these pages. Then, as now, aggressive organization men increased their own and the CRIMSON'S solvency by shrewd dealing with local entrepreneurs...
...When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." The poets have now repaid the compliment. Not since Lincoln's assassination has an American's death inspired so much poetry, the best of which has been collected in this volume. Established poets-W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, John Berryman, among others-lent their usual talent; lesser-known poets rose to more than usual eloquence; and all expressed an admiration for J.F.K. that undoubtedly would have shocked him: Robert Hazel ("President I love as my grandfather loved Lincoln"); Ruth Yorck ("We may stop worrying./ Our best man died./ We know...