Word: rediscoverers
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Stained-glass design has been on the decline for seven centuries, ever since its peak splendor in Chartres' cathedral. Describing Chartres, Henry Adams said that "no other material, neither silk nor gold . . . can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...
She graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory of Music at 14, an accomplished musician whose professors agreed that they had nothing further to teach her, and set off on her own, giving concerts throughout Europe. But Landowska had no desire to dazzle concert audiences in the accepted manner: "I have always...
His conviction: some of the best of the modernists are edging away from abstract designs and are beginning to rediscover the human frame. In so doing, he believes, mid-century artists are trending back toward Rodin-and the century's early spirit-after a long spell of sculpture-as...
The nurse put down a rug and on the rug a baby of about a year old. Then she returned to a seat, well sheltered by some laurel bushes from the spring breeze, still cool, and opened a book. The baby lay on its back for some minutes, gazing with...
Americans did not invent the art of guerrilla war, but they were once very good at it. U.S. military history is studded with great guerrilla names-General Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox"), who fought hit & run campaigns in the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution; Captain John Mosby, Confederate...