Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was not a vast, much-publicized Billy Graham crusade like those that have drawn millions of people throughout the non-Communist world. The audiences on the hillside and in subsequent overflow church meetings were made up of devout Protestants, not the general public. To make sure of that, Hungary's state-run media carried no advance notices of the gatherings...
...Vast in scale (though not always in size), lush and rigorous in color, his cutouts are among the most admired and influential works of Matisse's entire career. They belong with the grandest affirmations of the élan vital in Western art. Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of being hanged wonderfully concentrates the mind. In 1941, when he was 71, Matisse nearly died of an intestinal blockage and was bedridden for much of his remaining time. But he felt reborn, and the cut-outs would serve as most eloquent witnesses...
...found on arrival in 1945: then all 60 of the hospital's beds were filled by patients who were very sick, not only from active leprosy and its complications but also from tuberculosis and kidney diseases. But even at that time, she said, there had been, naturally, a vast improvement in conditions and in nursing and medical care over what Father Damien had found when he landed in the colony...
...directed 21 musical numbers--each a separate attempt to explore the many levels of human interaction through simple song and melody. Nightclub Cantata is part of her search for "new words for music," words, she says, "that will not make either bad poetry or easy emotions." Playing with a vast range of 'foreign' languages, she has set to music "Avesta," an old Persian cursing language, as well as jungle choruses and a bird lament...
...John Suiter's mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region's treasure is still waiting to be found...