Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York in 1938. Famed as the creator of the Purism movement in modern art, he has exhibited regularly in Paris and other centers since 1910. In France he founded the review "L'Elan" and, in collaboration with Le Corbusier, the famous French architect, he published the review "L'Esprit Nouveau," beginning in 1920. The latter had important influence on the development of modern...
...would restore her faith and rebuy the future. And Werfel's ironic answer to why Europe has fallen is symbolized in the climax of that pilgrimage, a journey portrayed with a Chaucerian flair for the details which make characters seem real. He shows the Austrians of every class; the nouveau-riche, the poor, the priest, and the salesman--all like Teta seeking blind assurance of happiness beyond life and ignoring the hell on earth. The Pope, himself wracked by physical pain, like them turns his eyes away from the ground. Only the flotsam on the "wave of the future," Werfel...
...Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance. Then, in 1581, Philip II of Spain conquered Portugal, and the Portuguese Renaissance died in its primitive stage...
...recently arrived in North America. These are: the Duke of Windsor's onetime flying instructor, Captain Alexander Stratford Cunningham-Reid, who gets $50,000 a year for life from a former wife whom he divorced for adultery; onetime subway engineer Captain Leonard Frank Plugge, who after a nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have I with my commercial broadcasting!"; and John Roland Robinson, who is chairman of a British Guiana gold-mining company and husband of Maysie Casque, an heiress with Woolworth connections...