Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please lay off nagging Ike every time he takes a change of scene. F.D.R. spent long weeks working at Warm Springs, Ga. and no one ever nagged him about...
After reading your article, millions of Americans will laugh those three Dickensian characters (Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Thigpen and Member Crum) to scorn, and that sweet little old lady in your portrait will be Baskin in the warm sunshine of public sympathy and approval...
...surging popularity of U.S. painting in the art centers of Western Europe apparently does not stop short at the Iron Curtain. Proof of this is arriving at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art in the form of scores of warm letters of appreciation from painters, sculptors, critics, curators and librarians-many of them speaking out to the West for the first time-from the muted lands of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania. What triggered this spontaneous outpouring of sentiment was a single book: Three Hundred Years of American Painting by Alexander Eliot, an associate editor of TIME, which...
...introduction, when he goes through a process he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Says he: "When you extend a handshake to a fellow, you can sort of feel his pulse and evaluate him by the way his hand feels. If it's warm and if it has a firm clasp, then you know that he is affectionate and that he is direct. And if he looks you in the eye, you usually know that he is dependable...
...poor one." Since then, unafraid Composer Piston, now 64, has turned out a steady flow of works, none of them poor, most (including a 1948 Pulitzer-prizewinning Third Symphony) concise, witty, technically brilliant. Last week the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed the latest Piston, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, to warm applause. As played by the Boston's first-rate Violist Joseph de Pasquale, the concerto unfolded as a simple, strongly exuberant piece with clear orchestral coloration and precise balance. In its climactic third movement, there was plenty of agitation, some gay syncopation, and an enticing dialogue between the solo...