Word: woes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anshutz was a student of nature, drawing most of his inspiration from the workaday world. He had simple, direct ideas of truth in painting and how to go about it: "Get up an outfit for outdoor work, go out into some woe-begotten, turkey-chawed, bottle-nosed, henpecked country and set myself down, get out my materials and make as accurate a painting of what I see in front of me as I can." Anshutz' canvases breathe in life the way lungs take in air. In several seascapes at the gallery, young boys frolic over the beach...
...screen, Cantinflas is Latin America's perpetual Poor Soul, who stumbles from woe to woe in a series of pratfalls. As Phileas Fogg's spirited gentleman's gentleman, he blundered merrily Around the World in 80 Days. Mario Moreno, as Cantinflas is known in private life, bears little resemblance to the helpless clown with the split mustache. He is one of the richest men in Mexico, with an income of something like $350,000 a year, lives like a potentate in five homes attended by a staff of 18 servants. He flies...
...Woe to the rebellions children, says...
...empire dwindle away under the weight of weakness, jealousy and distrust. By midcentury, Europe was divided between Charles's three grandsons-Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German. In one of the rare medieval verses that combines reason and beauty, a bishop expressed the general woe...
...people of Babylon heeded not the words of the prophet, and brought harps and timbrel into their hall and played loud music. Then again came Argaman the prophet and said "Woe unto you people of Babylon for you mock the Lord with loud music. Surely your house shall be made a desolation...