Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wanderjahrce through Germany, and he did not reach Colmar until 1492. When he got there, Schongauer was dead. His restless wanderings across Europe included two trips to Venice, and were capped by a yearlong sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included Erasmus himself. Later he commemorated his meeting with Erasmus by a portrait that was drawn, according to its inscription, "from the living figure." In fact it was done from Dürer's memory and another artist's portrait, and Erasmus thought it a poor...
...father of the bride is President of the U.S., the Nixon-Cox nuptials would attract little more public attention than, perhaps, a few paragraphs in the Sunday New York Times, Eastern society's county clerk. But a White House wedding, whoever the incumbent or the bride, has a certain nimbus of history about it. Tricia's will be the fourth presidential wedding in five years, counting Julie Nixon's marriage to David Eisenhower when her father was President-elect; yet repetition has not much dimmed the novelty. Enough atavistic American love of royalty and appetite for pageant remain, along with...
...they were sent to fight, and it eventually slipped out from under their combat boots. They were trained to work in small teams, to meet the guerrilla enemy one-to-one in any remote paddy or jungle where he could be found. As the war has turned, the nimbus of heroism dissolved. At the beginning of the year, the Green Berets turned over their last camps to the South Vietnamese troops. Last week, the Army announced that as an official unit the Green Berets have ceased to function in Viet...