Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical Dutch town - a canal, two town gates, a bridge and church steeples, a wide majestic sky, and over all a warm light dipping here and there to touch the waves, the boats and a little patch of yellow wall with a special brilliance. Jan Vermeer had painted Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt...
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 10 p.m. to conclusion). The Dallas Cowboys, one of the N.F.L.'s preseason favorites for the Eastern Division crown, meet the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth and last warm-up exhibition...
...west of Ireland where Time Lost takes place, and for the large part of an hour the same might be said of the film itself. Manny Winn's camera captures the fairy lights that delicately image the immanence of the Celtic twilight. And John Addison's murmuring, warm-weird music summons forth the cold green spirit of the place like ould St. Patrick's pipe itself...
...Although Lucy was with Roosevelt on the day he died in April 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., the reports of the visit indicate that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an artist who was doing a watercolor portrait of F.D.R. (and who had previously painted Lucy), left the house as soon as F.D.R. was stricken, and went to Aiken, S.C. They were not present when he died...
Plentiful Land. Cape Town soon became famous as "the tavern of the seas." Under a warm sun, crops flourished, cattle fattened and the population of the tiny station multiplied. Dutch settlers began flocking in, to be granted plots of rich farm land by the Dutch East India Company. Land was plentiful, and rather than survey it all, the company often granted a newcomer as much as he could ride around on horse back in a given number of hours...