Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hopper's quiet canvases, blemishes and blessings balance. He will paint an ugly front stoop and the warmth of sunlight on it, or a sooty curtain stirring with the fragrance of an unexpected breeze. He presents common denominators, taken from everyday experiences, in a formal, somehow final, way. The results can have astonishing poignancy, as if they were familiar scenes solemnly witnessed for the very last time. "To me," says Hopper, "the important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling...
...rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...
...themes, that begins with paintings from the Roman catacombs and covers more than 14 centuries before it comes to rest with the all but serene Biblical painting of Rembrandt. The contrasts are fascinating: between the somber faith of the Spaniards and the Gallic directness of the French, the controlled warmth of the Italians and the austere faith of the Germans. It is a brilliant sampling that shows, among other things, how national character, as well as time and place, alters the face of Christian...
...caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat. Much of it reflected a last wild try to wreak a change in the U.S.'s stand against British-French-Israeli aggression in Suez. "If we all get hot enough under the collar," said the Daily Sketch, "the warmth of the conflict may perhaps penetrate the icy coldness and hostility in Washington...
...various unseen clients in whom she takes an unsolicited interest. With one of them (pleasantly played by Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie), she falls in love at first hearing. The love story of Bells Are Ringing is almost defiantly orthodox, but suffused as it is with Judy's warmth, never really becomes a burden. But it does bulk much too large for wit to keep pace with sentiment, for the Comden-Green book to display the usual fresh, crisp Comden-Greenness...