Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this chant is U.S. General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Commander of all NATO forces in Europe. To the chanters, Gruenther retorts that the only change in the Russians is what NATO's strength has forced on them. With a cascade of facts drawn from an incredible memory, an inextinguishable smile and a dry Nebraska lucidity that is the admiration of every statesman in Europe, Al Gruenther fights that tired feeling with a combination of public optimism and private exhortation that is his specialty. To those who speak of Russian smiles, he recites precise figures of Russian forces, of Russian concentration...
...flags waved. In 1918 the first Folies nude appeared. She was "a delicious blonde." Each evening there was a deep hush, followed by a murmur of admiration when she appeared on stage, transported in a flower-decked chariot and clad only in a crown of flowers and a sparkling smile...
...baby's first smiles, unsmiling pediatricians insist, are merely mechanical preludes to burps. Similarly solemn reasoning has led many critics to assume that the smiles which characteristically wreathe the best of ancient sculpture were put there by artists who did not know how to carve a straight face. This assumption was being thoroughly discredited last week at the Birmingham Museum of Art. "The Archaic Smile," a show assembled by Museum Director Richard Howard, features dozens of works as controlled and haunting as the examples opposite...
Early Greek sculpture (before 500 B.C.) is distinguished by small, firm smiles of slowly awakening tenderness. So is the archaic art of every great civilization, from ancient Egypt and Chaldea through India and China. The smile reoccurs most poignantly in the great Gothic sculptures at Rheims and Chartres cathedrals. It has a sophisticated echo, more sweetly mysterious than ever, in Leonardo's Mona Lisa. The quiet intensity of the smile-secretive and yet loving, serene and yet troubling-can be mimicked by such moderns as Picasso but never successfully counterfeited; it seems to have fled from modern...
...variations over thousands of years and places, what single thing, if any, did the archaic smile stand for? Museum Director Howard says it "gives a definite impression of an otherworldly quality." Worcester Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor, who will lecture on the mystery at Birmingham next week, points out that the "smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings...