Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterwork of sobersided, redheaded John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), a painter deeply admired in his youth, deeply pitied in old age, and deeply buried in the textbooks after his death. The picture's new home at the Met should do much to rescue Painter Vanderlyn from his long oblivion...
...Cloisters, the Met's outpost on the Hudson River). He wonders if it might be the work of famed Renaissance Sculptor Donatello, known to have been one of Poggio's close friends. But for the moment, he says, "we must remain content to have brought back from oblivion a masterpiece of the 15th century...
...your congressional committee duties would, whether you were right or wrong, invoke unending opposition of powerful political and academic forces. Almost alone, you went ahead. Under another great President you chose to serve though you knew that under one so colorful and popular, the Vice Presidency would mean an oblivion deeper than the shades of night . . . You have put into that office a maximum and mighty service of legislative accomplishment, of reconciliation of diverse forces . . . and promotion of international understanding and good will...
...Inexorable Laws of History went their iron way last week, sending the varsity lacrosse team down under Princeton to 15 to 2 oblivion, but then flaunted May Day and abandoned the scene, washing what hands Inexorable Laws might have...
...lowans may live on ham and corn-but J they despise condescension ("hamminess" and "corniness") from anyone. Let Harriman join ; those who have "foot-in-mouth" disease, and sink into oblivion...