Word: rima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came the great Rima bas-relief in Hyde Park. Outraged Britons screamed about the lady's "hamlike hands," made speeches on street corners and smeared with green paint this portrayal of the ethereal heroine of Naturalist William Henry Hudson's Green Mansions (TIME, June...
...eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History of the Conquest of New Spain, which remains the best first-hand story of the great conquistadors. From this first-hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala...
Ever since the forceful, forbidding bas-relief of Rima- was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin at Hyde Park in 1925, the work of Jacob Epstein, U. S.-born, London-dwelling Jewish sculptor, has been big news to the British Press, bitterly attacked by the conservative, enthusiastically praised by enemies of prettiness. Last week the newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin...