Word: spaciousness
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Stylistically, the picture can only be described as an amalgam, with bugle-clear echoes of Raphael and Velasquez, muted ones of Turner, the impressionists, and such modern reproduction devices as the color dot screen. The composition is strict, static, deliberate and almost incredibly spacious, yet the lack of technical and emotional unity makes it seem cluttered and diffuse. It is as if a profoundly erudite painter had dozed off at his window in the dawn, and dreamed what no other man could imagine, a pearly vision of the impossible mingling with the possible...
...Italian-style cuffs on the sleeves of his stylish suits. Nor was he born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen, and a green model T Ford in the garage. Mother Christine Sannes Humphrey saw to it that her children attended the Methodist Sunday school and listened to Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...book publisher sat in his spacious home in Norman, Okla. and swirled a glass of brandy. "There are no more hicks in America," said Savoie Lottinville, 52, head of the University of Oklahoma Press. "The cultural face of the continent has changed from concentration in New York and San Francisco. A great lot of the best ideas come from localities far removed from those great cities...
Newspaper Publisher Charles Phelps Taft (half brother of the President) and his wife built their collection to fit the museum when it was still their own home, a gem of early Federal architecture on Cincinnati's Lytle Park. In 1927 they presented it intact to Cincinnati. The quiet spacious rooms are adorned but not crowded with Duncan Phyfe furniture, 200 Chinese porcelains, a top-rank selection of French Renaissance enamels, and more than 100 canvases, from Hieronymus Bosch to John Singer Sargent, all of extraordinary quality. In fact, Hals's Laughing Child is only one of a dozen...
...town, and her husband Carson is an organization nomad in a Brooks Brothers shirt. When Carson heads for London on one of his periodic sales junkets, Barbara deposits their two little boys with the maid and flies off like a homing pigeon to her dear old home in gracious, spacious Burketown, Conn...