Word: storming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gardner, whose collection he largely formed. Before the turn of the century he had made his fame as an art expert when he audaciously announced that about 75% of the Renaissance paintings in a major exhibition in London were either copies or attributed to the wrong artists, weathered the storm of protest and made his judgments stick...
...already shown, the sense of life in Pasternak is heightened by the flashing vigor of his imagery; sometimes he welds disparate images to startle the reader into a rebirth of wonder. At the first patter of a summer drizzle, "dust swallowed up the pills of raindrops." In an offshore storm, "skies crouch lower/ Flying downward/ Steep/ Sea slopes/ And finger the deep/ With wings of clamorous gulls...
...face of terror and degradation, Pasternak sees history as "the passing storm," the title of his latest poem, sent to Translator Kayden in manuscript. In it he voices anew his enduring scorn for the "New Man in the wagon of his Plan," and his hope for humanity's future...
...Western skies temporarily looked clearer, the storm clouds were still piling up in the East. In New Delhi last week the Indian government put out a map showing in detail the extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier...
...time, Frankenstein. For eight years the young couple-married after the suicide of the poet's first wife-skittered across France, Switzerland and Italy, keeping company with the brightest minds and most advanced spirits of English letters. When the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, died in a storm at sea at 29, his friends held a cremation ceremony on the beach, and one of them snatched the young heart from the flames. His widow, Mary, then 25, devoted her remaining years to the poet's memory...