Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitutional formula. But the immediate threat of U.D.I, and all its ugly ramifications had-for the moment-been averted. It remained to be seen if Rhodesia's blacks would be as patient as Wilson was willing to be. As he boarded his R.A.F. Comet in the bright sunlight of Salisbury Airport Saturday morning, Wilson left behind a frozen silence. But frost, in the Rhodesian context, is better than fire...
...sleeps in sunlight, surrounded by many dreams...
...were amused. He had diagnosed the instrument pneumonia-before the doctors, even before it struck. Now he would have nothing to do with his foolish, fluttering rescuers. Weakly, vainly, he ordered his own brother, Dr. Robert Proust, from the room. After he died, those malevolent enemies of his life, sunlight and flowers, were admitted at last to his presence, along with a steady tide of mourners. One of these, Jean Cocteau, the poet, noting the neat pile of manuscripts on the mantel, ventured the thought that their composer was "continuing to live, like the ticking watch on the wrist...
...result has proved a tremendous success. The brilliant sunlight of Attica and classical background give such modern works as Matisse's Head of Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...
...trance when he slipped on her finger a silver ring mounted with a 2,000-year-old iridescent glass piece from the Roman ruins of Caesarea−a gift from Kollek's private collection. An expert later warned her not to wear the priceless ring in the sunlight, which might dull its iridescence, but Kollek smiled: "You go ahead and wear it. It will keep for another 2,000 years...