Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leadership of the non-Communist world, the U.S. has some dire responsibilities to shoulder. One of them is to meet the fundamental moral challenge posed by the strange old wizard who lives in a mountainous land and who is, sad to relate...
...Washington, M. B. Schnapper, editor of Public Affairs Press, wrote to Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson criticizing plans for a new stamp honoring that patriotic seamstress, Betsy Ross. There is no proof, wrote the dissenter, that it was Betsy who had made the first American flag. "It is a sad day indeed when governmental agencies start promoting romantic rumors as though they are historical facts." Nonsense, retorted Donaldson's philatelic experts. A. Atwater Kent had spent good money to refurbish the Ross house in Philadelphia as a historical shrine; the Daughters of the American Revolution had approved the stamp...
...seduced a plump little French governess, discarded her after a year or so, left her in his will "five hundred pounds as some compensation of the injury." The illegitimate son she bore him turned out to be the sad apple of his eye. The sage of the minuet had sired a clodhopper. But Chesterfield was the last to admit...
...unpracticed eye. But by painting it from a vantage point overlooking the Schuylkill River, Stuempfig has thrown new light on its smoke-darkened silhouettes. Using a mixed technique of tempera with oil glazes on heavy canvas, Stuempfig gradually built a spacious river town veiled in a warm and somehow sad early morning dimness. The neo-classical composition recalls Corot's Italian landscapes, and its distant, county-courthouse dome might almost be mistaken for St. Peter's in Rome. "Pennsylvania towns," Stuempfig insists, "do have an Italian look...
Stuempfig shuns modern experiments, keeps a reproduction of a Corot in his studio, and constantly combs his own neighborhood for moving, nostalgic subjects. Asked why his landscapes so often look sad, he replies: "Maybe it's because even the landscape isn't safe any more, what with these new turnpikes and everything...