Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ashcan School" painter who was in revolt against all the ready-made standards of beauty and proportion handed down year after year by the powerful Art Students League. Davis' next teacher was the 1913 Armory Show, which he saw when he was not yet 20. It was sheer emancipation to see that Van Gogh and Gauguin used color, not as nature had it, but almost arbitrarily in accordance with artistic instinct. Davis also discovered that "cubism allowed you to form the concept of the object as you saw it from different views." When he had absorbed the show...
Barnum was tone deaf, but he had brought Jenny Lind to America because he absurdly hoped to change his image. When people thought of Barnum, they thought of sheer bazazz, and he wanted them to think of fine arts and culture. This cost him a down payment of $187,500 before the singer would set foot on board ship. But his investment paid off in cash if not in permanent dignity, as Jenny Lind made a 12,000-mile, 165-concert sellout tour during which a single seat went for $653; another time, 1,000 standing-room tickets were sold...
...champion, comes to Cambridge with a pretty impressive club. They are 6-1 for the year, and their team batting average of .291 indicates they have a fairly explosive line-up. Team fielding and pitching aren't quite as remarkable, but Navy apparently believes, as do the Yankees, that sheer brute force can go a long...
...formula for victory consisted of ingredients that have stood sox in good stead all season long: if not powerful hitting, slick ing, and sheer, blind, incredible After Boston pitchers had blown lead twice, Lu Clinton's two-out drove in Carroll Hardy with the run in the bottom...
...project like this it would have been sheer madness to settle for anything less than top talent. Broadway Composer Richard Adler (The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees) did the score and lyrics. One of the men who won Oscars for scoring West Side Story stayed up all night doing the arrangement. Musicians came from the New York Philharmonic. The high-paid, high-caliber Hi-Lo's were there to do the singing. After 29 takes. Composer Adler was still dissatisfied. "It must have that ping. That's the feel I want implemented, band-wise." Take No. 30 was pingsville...