Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell has a vast depth advantage in both the dashes and the broad jump which threatens to offset the Crimson strength in the distance and weight events. Penn offers little more than two fourteen-foot pole vaulters, Carl Shine, the Heptagonal shot put champion, and Andy Wohlgemuth, who tied John de-Kiewiet for the Heptagonal high jump championship...
With the warmth and companionship of her husband, Crip, she is guarding two shine white eggs--the embodied hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison...
...that he is one of the oldest abstractionists going, with an established prewar-Paris reputation. In the '30s he rated one-man shows, shared gallery space in group shows with such now famous moderns as Alberto Giacometti, Arp, Hans Hartung and Kandinsky. Gertrude Stein, who had taken a shine to the strapping, red-haired painter from Pendleton, Ore., announced in Everybody's Autobiography: "He is the only American painter foreign painters in Paris consider as a painter and whose painting interests them. He is young yet and might only perhaps nobody can do that thing called abstract painting...
...abstruse field happened whether he was talking to a packed lecture hall or to a single listener. He would grin, draw a few symbols on the blackboard, say a few simple words and grin again. Then, little by little, a new kind of light would begin to shine on the most difficult subject...
...phrasing of such otherwise unrecorded golden-agers as Jean De Reszke, Albert Saléza and Georg Anthes, and such better-preserved stars as Lillian Nordica, Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich and Antonio Scotti. Every so often, the patient listener is suddenly rewarded by hearing the great voices shine through the surface fog-Scotti in Act II of Pagliacci, Melba in the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene-with a beauty and authority that no failings of Mapleson's recording technique can mask...