Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphant old age, Turner took into his province such formless things as snow, wind, mist and sunlight, painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...
...touring Kefauver committee last week made its triumphant return to Washington, leaving behind it a rash of probes, citizen crime investigations, red faced politicians, some civic firings, and a limp, but still eager, audience. It was a fortnight that had rocked the nation. In Chicago, hardy viewers shifted from foot to foot in 15° weather as they watched the hearings through TV-store windows. In Minneapolis, bars and restaurants with TV sets were thronged even in the mornings. In New York, the Consolidated Edison Co. had to switch on an extra generator to carry the daytime load...
...Triumphant Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). Annual Easter show...
After that, there was not much more the Government could do; its case had evaporated into thin air. Last week Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts threw it out of court and dismissed the jury. Said a blandly triumphant Earl Browder: "When demagogues fall out, honest men have a better opportunity to protect their liberties. Senator McCarthy, having driven the committee out on a limb, then proceeded...
With Syngman Rhee, the duly elected President of South Korea, facing a Russian-run North Korea, with the triumphant Chinese Reds pouring south over China from Shanghai, with criticisms of his policies mounting in the U.S., Acheson turned on his attackers...