Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great painters of all time was a somber-minded Fleming named Hieronymus Bosch, who lived in 15th century Burgundy. Like other medieval artists, he took most of his themes from religion, executed them for wealthy clerical or lay patrons. No religious artist before or since, however, has seen fit to people his canvases with such a mocking and horrifying mixture of vegetable, animal and mineral monstrosities...
...Somber in his black coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and Xenophon. William Holmes McGuffey, newly appointed professor of ancient languages at Oxford's Miami University, was exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate...
...bluebloods. She learned how to smooth over chipped spots ("like filling a tooth"), repaint damaged hands and noses, replace frayed lining, spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas Cranach; instead of one of the 16th century master's sly, dreamy-looking women, the canvas showed...
Today her windows glitter in churches all over the British Isles, and she has turned out everything from a somber, Rouaultish window for a Dublin Roman Catholic military chapel, to a greenish-gold abstract for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. A Catholic in a Protestant family, she lives alone, ventures out seldom. "I have to save what energy I have for my work," she explains. Her one extravagance is Paris ("My excuse is to buy glass"), and twice a year she can be seen rambling around Montparnasse, a tiny figure in mannish tweeds puffing...
...Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 "monodrama," Erwartung (Expectation), and his Manhattan audience seemed to find it considerably less noisy and strident than expected. Columbia Records stepped in quickly, got Mitropoulos, his New York Philharmonic-Symphony and Soprano Dorothy Dow to record it. Erwartung's one-act story is somber, not to say macabre: a woman sings her innermost thoughts as she goes to a woodland tryst, stumbles over the dead body of her lover. The score sounds something like that of Alban Berg's Wozzeck, it is introverted and complex, but it succeeds in expressing terror and, surprisingly...