Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the aid of huge flares, 30 parachutists made a night descent on Omodhos, a shiny white vineyard village of small, neat houses and narrow cobblestoned streets. Nothing looked more innocent. In the cottage of the village constable the parachute lieutenant walked in on a family scene: before a blazing fire the constable was helping a child with his homework while his wife tended a baby in a cradle. Another child crawled on the floor, and a grandmother was setting the table. But the lieutenant noticed that the fire had only just been lit. Kicking it apart, he found that...
...story does not, that Van Gogh's epilepsy halted his painting, but does not explain it. The Grape Harvest, painted in the buffeting mistral outside Aries before Van Gogh's first attack, is faithful to the glowing description he wrote his brother of a "red vineyard, all red like red wine. In the distance it turned to yellow, and then a green sky with the sun, the earth after the rain violet, sparkling yellow here and there where it caught the setting...
...France radioactive rain has become a specialty of the Communist press, which blames almost every malaise on U.S. (but not Soviet) bomb tests. The Communist daily Liberation told how growing vegetables were yellowed, how a vineyard was burned "as if by a flame thrower," how an elderly farmer was rained on, felt a prickling sensation and turned yellow all over. French rain does occasionally show a slight amount of radioactivity, but it is never enough to do damage to humans, certainly not enough to blast the leaves off grapevines...
...that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle-dazzle and vineyard partygoing. All this might just get by were the parties more festive; but despite plenty of good dance music, Fella offers remarkably commonplace dancing...
...decision of Fra Angelico and his brother, who became Fra Benedetto, to present themselves at the doors of the small Dominican monastery, set in a vineyard at the foot of the hill of Fiesole outside Florence, came at a crucial time. A wave of reform was sweeping the Dominican monasteries of Italy; revived humanism, based on study of recently rediscovered classic manuscripts, was threatening the church with a new kind of paganism. The new convent of San Domenico, then less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent...