Word: litted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lit by a completed section of stained glass, Matisse's working model of the chapel did actually seem filled with fiery light. Had he known it would come out so well? "No," said Matisse, "I didn't-I'm not a bluffer. Emotions within us lead us to create. The artist works and arrives at a moment when there is an explosion ... I can't say why in this case the colors happened to be so subtle and harmonious...
...pictures in the show included something by almost every first-rank U.S. painter. Edward Hopper had sent along a harshly lit Conference at Night that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just...
...Dunster House dining room underwent a 30-second blackout punctuated with cheers during supper last night in a birthday celebration for John M. Major, tutor in English. In the middle of the blackout a large cake appeared, lit by an undetermined number of candles...
...world was a paranoid Luna Park lit by alcohol and filled with ingenious contraptions for the exercise of harmless aggression and idiosyncratic suspicion. To find out if his servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds at 2 a.m., armed with blackjacks and carrying on loud conversations with fictitious bodyguards. He never made his peace with the world because he saw no good reason to be at peace with...
Other local luminaries who will partake in the ceremonies are: Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Philly first baseman (out since May after being shot in a hotel room), Al Capp, author of "LIT Abner," actress Betty Field, and Mayor Michael J. Novilie...