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...memorizing the great lines that have been treasured ever since, from Poe's magical Helen, thy beauty is to me ... to Lowell's What is so rare as a day in June? They were reading poetry about themselves, scenes they knew and friends they remembered, a gentle, sunlit, innocent poetry of farms, snowdrifts, schoolhouses, pilgrims, heroes, ships and ghosts...
...Curbs. North Africa last week was no sunlit monument to U.S. diplomacy. From Algiers, TIME'S Foreign News Editor Charles Christian Wertenbaker cabled...
Peter Blume's hopes and prophecies were clear enough on his canvas. Italian workers strove toward the sunlit Forum. Mounted Fascist officers, attempting to prevent them, were dragged from their chargers while the uniformed ranks showed signs of mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...
...lighted candles beckoned from the windows on Boston's stately Louisburg Square; the all-but-actual stage sets which lit up the facades of Hollywood homes last year were dark. Few firecrackers sputtered on the South's sunlit streets; no lights shone from the giant fir trees in the thousands of village squares. Christmas, 1942, had moved indoors...
...started to paint at 26, did not sell a painting for many years. During that time he travelled incessantly (on a handsome allowance from his father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence of the Barbizon school did Corot begin to paint, not what nature is, but his dream of what it ought...