Word: vernal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-prepared grave, and the last movement alternates between heaven and ell, using themes from the first movement once more. This complexity of image and response reappears in every succeeding symphony: the Resurrection, for example, is a vast poem of death, vision of refracted horrors, moments of vernal consolation, primeval light, and a personal belief in redemption. Each symphony is an agon, so to speak, involving malaise and piety, desolation and transfiguration, the spectral and the immaculate, almost always ending in the reassertion of the nobility of the human spirit and the inextinguishable beauty of nature. Mahler felt everything...
...gallery. It was Constable's moral feeling for the countryside of England, outgoing Gallery Director John Walker points out in the catalogue, that is his principal achievement. "More than any other artist, he was able to embody in paint Wordsworth's 'Impulse from a Vernal Wood,' " Walker writes. "He remains among artists the high priest of pantheism, the primate of a new religion of natural beauty...
...fascinating, or campy, or worthy of serious study, or a source of substitute faith, have turned the fad into a phenomenon. Astrologers insist that since their art is actually a science, its renascence was foreordained. The world, they contend, is just entering the Aquarian Age. The movement of the vernal equinox westward at the rate of about 50 seconds a year is bringing it from 2,000 years in the zodiac's sign of Pisces ?characterized by skepticism and disillusionment?to the next 2,000 in Aquarius, an airy sign that will influence the world toward aspiration and faith...
...Vernal Urges...
Says president Kline, "All girls are horse-crazy at some point in their lives. Any who have the vernal urge are welcome to come help us with spring cleaning...