Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bacon's success is sudden. Not until the age of 40 did he have his first one-man show. Today he is Britain's foremost painter. He hearkens back to the English portrait tradition-the grand manner. This phrase was used by Sir Joshua Reynolds to define the ideal High Renaissance portrayal of the human figure in elevated themes. The theme of Bacon's grand manner is man's eventual, often brutal descent into the grave-but it is nevertheless a way of dealing with the lofty idea of man against tragic destiny, sometimes in austere...
...selection of a celebrated volume by University Professor I. A. Richards as a textbook was a ground for the sudden dismissal of a full professor at Mercy College in Detroit, according to a report just published by the American Association of University Professors' Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure...
That was it. Precisely five hours and 45 minutes after he arrived at the White House, Tito was hustled off again. Worn by the pace and by the sudden change in climate and elevation from 1½-milehigh Mexico City, Tito returned to the Allen-Byrd House feeling ill, had nothing but two bowls of consommé for dinner. His personal physicians discovered that he was running a slight fever (100.2°), diagnosed it as a mild case of influenza. His scheduled trip to Yosemite National Park and San Fran cisco was canceled, which probably came as a relief...
...Sudden Darkness. Householders in neighboring towns leaped from their beds fearing an earthquake as the torrent of water and debris thundered past. Then they noticed that the lights of Longarone had gone out. In just seven minutes, virtually everything and everybody in the chalet-bedecked villaggio had been swept away by water or entombed in mud. With pickaxes and shovels, soldiers dug fearfully into the muck, by week's end had unearthed 1,500 bodies. Of Longarone's peaceful populace of 3,500, the carabinieri feared that only a handful survived...
...reaction (anaphylactic shock) to cow's milk. But nobody knows for certain whether breast-fed babies are immune. The experts were unanimous on one point: they need more facts before they can prove or disprove any theory about the elusive causes of what they decided to call the "sudden death syndrome...