Word: lits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field includes the main civilizations in world history, subdivided either by country or century. A History and Lit major can concentrate on America, England, France, Germany, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries...
...paintings are his best yet. Kingman composed each one as elaborately as a Chinese puzzle, lit them with hectic dabs and flashes of bright color, and peopled them with wistful or sometimes sinister figures that seemed to hover uncertainly about the edges of his pictures, like the onlookers that interrupted his work. The paintings are crammed with signs reading Coffee Coffee Coffee, Goat, or ABCDEFGHIJK, and with crooked street lamps, unlikely stoplights, and one-way signs that often as not point straight up or down...
...revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...
Father Acheson was a Scots-Ulstbiuian who lit out from Britain to Canada in 1881. He fought with the Queen's Own Rifles in the Indian Rebellion, then went into the Anglican ministry. After serving as curate of St. George's Church in New York, he settled down in the rectory in Middletown. He had married Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham (pronounced Good-rum), of the Gooderham & Worts distillers' clan; Gooderham money built a 16-room brick house on elmlined Broad Street in which the Achesons lived, and Mother was a social arbiter. But Father ran the family...
...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...