Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night, children of the reunioners attended warm-ups and dances at the Union, Adams and Leverett Houses...
Confident of quick rescue, they gathered together their slim rations (three pieces of chocolate, a bottle of protein and calcium tablets) and salvaged clothing, holed up for several nights in a shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton...
...glance. He picks up a black Spanish cape from a pile of clothes, flings it around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with his pet goat...
...school is encamped. John Wain (Hurry On Down ) is an Amis in whom the quinine water has changed to straight quinine. Thomas Hinde (Happy As Larry) explores the Welfare State Bohemia with a hero who feels that cadging a livelihood is "more honest," and Peter Towry (It's Warm Inside) writes the comedy of carping domesticity. The upstart philistinism that molds and mars the entire group is succinctly stated by John Braine's hero when he says that everything is "simply a question of money...
...same time, Rouault's turbulent mysticism never looked better. Three Clowns, almost an ikon in spiritual dignity as well as in symbolic analogy, imparts to its rich, warm tones an austerity as breathtaking as its intense emotion. And Autumn, more soul than landscape, reveals perhaps even more the spirit of an old master than a modern...