Word: veils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time in which we live." The incisive yet graceful style of the bas-reliefs is distinctly his own. Perhaps no other living sculptor could have put so much sense of space and air into such deliberately low relief. His art, as one Italian critic put it, "is like a veil of poetry breathed over a bronze background...
...Shoot Him!" As the bitter news spread across France, national theaters' were closed down for two days (many ticket buyers were disappointed by the cancellation of the long-anticipated Soviet ballet at the Opera). A special Mass was scheduled at Notre Dame. "A veil of mourning has fallen over France," said Edouard Herriot, aged (81) veteran of France's many modern sadnesses...
Some occasional inadequacies in the narrative veil the good writing that appears sporadically in the descriptive passages. Though these faults keep Senior Spring from being an important novel, some of the book's moderate virtues hint at better things to come...
After an intermission the serious work of the evening begins with a male chorus of well-blended voices opening HMS Pinafore. Morely is back as Ralph Rack-straw and Miss Smith sheds her bridal veil for the gypsy dress of Buttercup. They are again quite good, with Miss Smith a little weak on the acting end and Morely too conscious of how his spoken words have sounded in other actors' interpretations. Edward Morse, on the other hand, cuts loose from D'Oyly-Carte's version to create an interestingly stiff and proper Sir Joseph. Paul Sperry, while a bit awkward...
...elected Vice President, said: "Well, I guess it's all right to be half right-and Vice President." But it wasn't all right. Calhoun quit in disgust and got elected to the Senate. Teddy Roosevelt referred to his election to the vice presidency as "taking the veil." Later, when he had succeeded President McKinley, Teddy was annoyed by the tinkling of the enormous "Jefferson chandelier" in his office, and ordered it removed. "Take it to the office of the Vice President," he said. "He doesn't have anything to do. It will keep him awake...