Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Again Walker offers a personal answer: the poet's vision of beauty. As a Black woman, she has learned "to worship/ the sun again./ To affirm the adventures/ of hair." As a poet and feminist, she affirms the value of the self without manufactured beauty: "For we are all/ splendid/ descendants/ of Wilderness,/ Eden:/ needing only/ to see/ each other/ without/ commercials/ to believe./ Copied skillfully/ as Adam./ Original/ as Eve." The last two lines punctuate Walker's message to women...
...Dadaists in Berlin, this was for air heads. "My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art," he noted in one of his copious journals, "which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life." This was in 1909, when the young Leipzig painter was just a month shy of 25. He was not far from such ambitious images of modern catastrophe as The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. This enormous, early painting...
...Glory of Their Times is laced with splendid photographs, many taken from the player's personal collections, and others dug up by Ritter at library and newspaper archives across the country. Such illustrations as an early Coca Cola advertisement and the moving endpiece depicting John J. McGraw and Honus Wagner reveal photography at its moving best. The illustrations are worth the price of the book alone...
...postgraduate tour of Italy with his mother, he sprained an ankle and broke an arm. Lily was forced to bathe her incapacitated son, to her evident enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown...
...talk; in fact, should one truthfully answer a reporter's question and acknowledge that his firm is going to agree to a merger tomorrow, he would be in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Public figures can evade too: "I think 'No comment' is a splendid expression," said Churchill after learning it on a trip to the U.S. "I am using it again and again...