Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five paintings by Paul Klee effectively span his career. "Runner at the Goal" (1921) and "Red Baloon" (1922) are the whimsical and delightful products of the early Klee, who was experimenting with color and geometric form. "The Revolution of the Viaduct" (1937)--one of the highpoints of the show--and "Severing of the Snake" (1938), are as cleverly executed but contain overtones of the seriousness which pervaded his work in the trying years before his death...
Raphael may be more than ever a name that sets collectors and the art market aquiver, but to a group of British painters who worked a century ago, his work and life span (1483-1520) marked the point where art went wrong. They longed for the "faithfulness" to nature of the Italians who preceded him, and joined together in a Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...
...concept gives his music a savage, struggling complexity, in which great orchestral thunder dies under the thumb of fragmentary jazz melodies, then resolves itself in intricate contrapuntal passages for both chorus and orchestra. But Bernstein does not settle on any idiom long enough to perfect it. Because his concentration span is short to the point of dilettantism, he achieves with all his battalions of singers and musicians only the affectation of beauty...
...final step of the course is the submission of a life plan involving some personal commitment for the next two years on the part of the participant in order to maintain his motivation for this span...
...trains: "The attention span of children for scenery is appallingly short." They like the trains themselves-for eating, sleeping, exploring. "Therefore, take advantage of train travel for long, overnight journeys...