Word: primavera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...jungle and wild scrub country of Primavera, Paraguay, these professional and office workers from the big cities of Europe struggled against climate, sickness, isolation and uncleared land. They learned to practice forbearance with one another, but not to swallow the personal resentments that were bound to arise: they made a rule that any member who is angry at another must quietly have it out with him before he goes to bed that night. They learned to find emotional outlets with festivals conducted with singing, dancing and theatricals, games and wine. They learned how to select the right...
...desk. But at week's end, he turned out with the rest of official Washington to hear Margaret Truman sing with the National Symphony Orchestra. From the presidential box, her father beamed down as she sang Mozart's Dove Sono and Glazunov's La Primavera. She was called back for three encores, sang one-Smilin' Through-directly at her parents. "I wept," said proud Harry Truman unabashedly. "I almost tore up two programs in the excitement...
...hurried through into the main room, and alongside the straw mattresses laid out by Italian refugees ... I gave a shout ... as I realized I was looking at Botticelli's Primavera...
...Mother's Day 1934, artists shuddered to see an un-Whistlerian bunch of flowers interpolated in the composition. The Post Office avoided artistic blunders when, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pan-American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style by James T. Vail, the Primavera stamp, larger than the average, was well...
Giovinezza, gio-vinezza, Primavera di bellezza, Nel dolore e ne I'ebrezza II tuo canto esultera...