Word: musee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Winston Churchill remembers his first vigorous move, in 1915, towards his favorite hobby. Back in 1915, as a fallen Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill had need of an absorbing activity. He had long hours of unwanted leisure. "And then it was," he wrote, "that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue . . . and said, 'Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people...
Well, here 'tis another week and again we have no time to write home to Ma, much less write columns for newspapers. But we've got our pants now and nothing can mar our happiness. So, pardon us if we just muse for 250 words or so... to express that carefree spirit which is ours...
...George," the automatic pilot, had been set by the human pilot before he died. The Catalina, her body riddled but her engines intact, drummed along through the sky. Keene had time to muse, stand around for "quite a while," open an after-hatch and gaze down 6,000 feet at the expanse of empty...
...whip up team spirit for conductors and orchestras, do so partly from lack of anything better to do, and partly to give themselves some kind of community dignity. The fault lies with the institution of music criticism, which, as it stands now, does more damage to its ailing Muse than it does good...
...feathery brushwork that later made him so rich a man and so sentimental a landscapist. This less familiar period of Corot's work is represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive Woman, The Gypsy with the Basque Drum), so many prancing nymphs and paintings like The Bacchante and the Panther, in which a nude woman holds up a dead bird to a panther ridden by a nude cherub...