Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halo of Heat. Van Gogh did the picture at Aries, on Dec. 7, 1888, in the small hours of a restless night. He had been obsessed, he wrote his brother Theo, by a dream of painting himself by candlelight. He got up, lit a candle, put on his old green jacket and began to paint furiously; about three hours later he stopped, leaving the lower fourth of the portrait unpainted. Even unfinished, it was a work exploding with energy. Out of the dark haft of the body the bony head leaped like a candle flame; the face, green-eyed...
This week, for a change, the portrait of Vincent hung in Lewenthal's Beverly Hills gallery, at the end of a long corridor, amid deep-red drapes, in candlelight subtly augmented by spotlights. The first night was an invitation show, intended for 500 closely screened art lovers, from Thomas Mann to Shirley Temple. For the next couple of days, anybody could look at it. Then it would go back to blaze in Mr. Goetz...
Elsewhere, except in Latin America, where New Year's is likely to be one of the hottest days of summer, celebrations will be mainly on a catch-as-catch-can basis. In Athens, the Robert Lows could figure on no central heating after ten o'clock, candlelight after 1 a.m., and no dancing at all (forbidden because of Greece's "cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news. In Shanghai...
Radcliffe undergraduates will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in St. John's Chapel to reinstitute one of the oldest Annex customs the Christmas candlelight service...
...brown obscurity of the painting glowed faintly with candlelight and with rose, blue and yellow waistcoats. The clock on the wall pointed to 2 a.m. and everyone seemed to be having a splendid time splicing the main brace-except for an old salt named Jonas Wanton. Jonas had passed out cold, but he remained a center of attention: one wassailer was being sick beside him, while Stephen Hopkins (who was later to sign the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island) blessed his bald head with grog...