Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abstract chasubles. In carving his colors with his hands in forms that startlingly foretold hard-edge abstraction, Matisse conquered the spectrum with his arabesque line. It was more than a homage to God. The chapel fulfilled in lines of color the lines of poetry that he loved best, a phrase by Baudelaire, which Matisse himself had used to title several of his works...
...Nobody goes to the Cape in the winter." The phrase haunts you as you speed down the Southeast Expressway, past the three-deckered homes of South Boston, past the innumerable suburbs. You didn't go skiing and the New York trip some-how fizzled out and you just can't bear Cambridge for one more day; so on a whim you try the Cape--sand dunes covered with snow, tufts of tall, yellow grass peeking out of the white cover--that kind of thing. And you find yourself driving over the canal, anxious for your first look at wintry Cape...
...later in The Stages of Economic Development. The Charles River analysis made several contributions of great significance. First of all, it offered the aid program what it had long lacked -- specific criteria for assistance. The goal, the Charles River economists said, was to enable underdeveloped nations, in Rostow's phrase, to "take off" into self-sustaining economic growth. This they believed, was feasible for most countries; and when it was reached, the need for special external assistance would end. Next they pointed out that non-economic factors determine growth. Thus, in addition to the familiar range of economic issues -- industrialization...
Post-Civil War America was a graceless murk of brownstones, soft-coal soot and ungainly walnut furniture. It was Victorian without even the fun of having royalty, and Critic Lewis Mumford summed up the period in a phrase, "the Brown Decades." By contrast, Europe attracted droves of artists in search of more romantic sensibilities. Of these exiles, none found herself more at home in France, while remaining essentially as American as a Henry James heroine, than Mary Cassatt. As her palette brightened, she became the only U.S. expatriate accepted by the fiercely iconoclastic French impressionists, and was invited to show...
...filming, the camera's merciless eye often annihilates the indispensable illusion of theater, leaping the distance that might lend more credibility to Olivier's thundercloud performance. His makeup looks false, and through the blackface gleams a supreme actor's intelligence, timing every phrase, calculating effects, revealing the mechanics of his trade in monstrous closeups. It is a spectacular display of virtuosity, but seldom very real or deeply moving or quite subservient to the Moor...