Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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friends to have disappeared long ago, wrote carefully: "The book renders me a great pleasure, and it fills a real gap in our knowledge of American art." A Budapest painter wrote: "We marvel at the richness of your art, of which we have only vague knowledge." From a librarian in Szeged: "This excellent work has aroused in our reading public a great interest...
...native England, Playwright-Actor-Director Peter Alexander Ustinov did so little TV that one critic mourned: "Genius is going to waste. That multitalented marvel, that compendium of comedy, has no sense of his duty to mankind-especially the part that watches TV." Luckily for viewers across the Atlantic, peripatetic Peter Ustinov is busting out all over U.S. television...
...Violin Concerto, he proved that, like the other Soviet soloists who have visited the U.S. since the war, he had all the technique he needed and some to spare. The familiar music poured from his bow in purling, honey-sweet ribbons of sound. His inflections were a marvel of etched sensitivity, his pianissimos feathery light, his fortissimos bold and clear, with no hint of blurring. Kogan played the concerto with no apparent effort, smiled shyly to a thunderous ovation, which brought both audience and orchestra to their feet. Said he modestly: "The piece has plenty of technical difficulties to entertain...
...assisting the local priests was Antonietta's husband Angelo. While the church has not formally accredited the miracolo, Pope Pius XII, in a message to Sicilians, has referred to the weeping Madonna: "So ardent are the people of Sicily in their devotion to Mary that who would marvel if she had chosen the illustrious city [of Syracuse] to give a sign of her grace...
Enter the Monk. Laughing satire soon gave way to bitter invective in the growing passion for reform. The unity of Christendom had been precarious for centuries before the Reformation. The marvel is, suggests Durant, that with its half-dozen-odd principal nations all out of step-in time, in psychology, in power, in learning-the Roman authority survived as long as it did. Italy was not only the home of the papacy, it was the source and cradle of European civilization itself-sophisticated, modern, even decadent, when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway...