Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium raved about the Renaissance, his longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should go to art school. In 1906 after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described as a "serious looking student who read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas...
...ending of the book has some dramatic power. Creda Reid is suddenly freed from one of her major complexes, hatred of her mother, by the unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...
...characters (none of which all very well developed), the author has two coldblooded respectable villains, a distinguished authoress, a pure, untainted heroine, a weak-willed mother, a detective, a hero in the form of a nephew of the authoress, and a few minor personages playing lesser parts. In the way of situations, Mr. Reeve has an equally wide variety, none of them wholly credible or real...
Other numbers in this series of concerts are Mozart's "Symphony in E-Flat Major", Ravel's "Suite from the Ballet, "Mother Goose", and the "Rondo for Orchestra" of Strauss, "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...
...knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant all my children, my wife, some of my sister's children, and, on some occasions, my mother...