Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phial of potassium cyanide (no one knew where it came from). When guards and a chaplain rushed into his cell, he was dying. Meanwhile, near Nürnberg's old imperial Castle, a band of German children hung Göring in effigy. Then they burned the makeshift scaffold and silently marched around the fire, watching it scatter weird shadows among the rubble...
...nimble-minded, solid citizen Schacht juggled accusations as though they were blocked marks. He could not deny that he had gambled on Hitler's success (once Schacht had said that with Hitler he was either "walking to a monument or a scaffold"). Now Schacht took the line that, as a good Christian and as a good businessman, he had always opposed war and wasteful cruelties. "Hitler deceived the world, Germany and me. . . . I would have killed Hitler personally if given the chance...
...scaffold stood just here...
Faith and Flair. Combined with the deep faith that grew in the Middle Ages, the flair of the Renaissance for zestful living produced men whose deaths were proud as well as pious. Mounting the scaffold, Sir Thomas More joked: "I pray thee, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself...
They came to buy a brand of expressionism which seemed far to the right of Evergood's politics. His strict sense of how to draw usually made a solid scaffold for his rags and flags of dramatic, loosely brushed color to fly from. When he was bad, Evergood was horrid. Some of his most obviously propagandistic work (American Tragedy, Jobs Not Dimes') looked careless-on-purpose-like that of a politician who mispronounces words for effect. But thought-out paintings such as Juju as a Wave (a portrait of his wife-see cut) had a warmth of feeling...