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...Without Thunder. In his son's recounting, Renoir was the sanest and sunniest of men. His biography is a powerful antidote for the notion-acquired, perhaps, from reading biographies of Van Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore...
...defined, and 55 of them walked out of the council rather than vote on the decree (all ultimately accepted it). A storm raged over Rome on the day the doctrine was approved; each favorable vote was echoed from outside St. Peter's Basilica by an awesome clap of thunder...
Lonely Are the Brave. Grim, stinking trailer trucks, the mechanistic behemoths of progress, thunder blindly along the highway. Near the white line dividing traffic, a high-strung horse skitters, rears and neighs in the kind of wild-eyed terror and anguish that Picasso gives to the horse in Guernica. The symbolic question is clear: Is the untamed free spirit an outlaw that must learn to toe the white lines of the modern world or perish...
Amid the pride of history and the fading thunder of memories, Europe's two grand old men are meeting in France this week. The occasion is heartening proof that Europe's ancient, fratricidal hate between France and Germany has abated...
Falla conceived of La Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...