Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. -crushing around the DC-6B just landed at Washington's National Airport. In the plane's doorway appeared Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, back from their tumultuous 18-day tour of Latin America. This was their homecoming, rare in its deep-felt warmth...
...Senturia made a short appearance in the first half of the concert to accompany Dorothy Crawford in A. Scarlatti's "Ombre Opache" and Monteverdi's Con Che Soavita. Mrs. Crawford used her pure voice to great advantage in instilling warmth and emotion into the arias, and Mr. Senturia provided her with sensitive accompaniment...
...bishops attending the Virgin Mary have the mien and carefully draped robes of the Greek philosophers. On one shell beneath the central dome the Angel of the Annunciation with classic countenance floats against a sky of gold. On the adjacent shell a note of nature observed, and of warmth and intimacy, warms the usually remote hieratic figures of the Nativity, and the manger animals, reduced to the size of toys, are almost playful...
...France with their mother for a summer holiday. Mrs. Grey gets bitten by a horsefly and lands in the hospital, leaving the children to manage as best they can without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich and handsome young English lover named Eliot, who takes the children for rides in his blue-and-silver Rolls...
...chorus, led by Emily Romney and Heywood Alexander, showed the customary discipline and technical skill which has become characteristic of Harvard choral groups. What it lacks chiefly is a warmth and lyrical quality which is difficult to attain, but which should be the principal goal of an ensemble as competent as this...