Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Canal of Venice is the most spectacular of all municipal thoroughfares. Graceful gondolas and chugging motorboats travel its waters, and its banks are lined with great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged in a heated esthetic and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U.S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal...
...Hollis Hall. With the pious hope that it was adding to undergraduate sobriety by housing all the students within the College gates, the Corporation opened Hollis in 1763, thus making it the fourth oldest building in the Yard. Three days later, Hollis' neighbor, Harvard Hall, burnt down in a spectacular blaze, and the Hall's restraining career was off to an auspiciously bad start. Since then, Hollis has provided a colorful mixture of deviltry and distinction in College history...
Eriksen's spectacular performance at Are last week had critics and admirers applauding such things as his timing, temperament and will power. Stein himself credits his training, which includes a stiff course of acrobatics. Good skis count too, he admits, and he races on skis of his own design. About four inches longer than normal, the waxed boards are scored with 16 small grooves to keep them steadier than the traditional single-grooved runners...
...Spectacular Fireworks. Dumont's favorite subject was cathedrals, and his favorite cathedral was the magnificent Gothic pile in his home town of Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also...
London's critics found nothing static in Dumont's work. The Daily Telegraph hailed him as "an ill-starred artist of genius." The Daily Mail reported that Dumont's pictures had burst "on artistic London with the blazing suddenness of a spectacular fireworks display," and even the staid Times noted: "He was certainly a strong painter . . . Perhaps the real reason [why he was forgotten] was that in an age of formidable individualism, he never developed a highly personal and clearly distinguishable style...