Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, 494 rare items of old English silver from the estate of the late J. P. Morgan were auctioned off at record prices: $31,000 for twelve Elizabethan dessert plates, engraved with the Labors of Hercules...
...York Times Book Critic Charles Poore described station wagons: ". . . half-timbered, like Elizabethan houses (what you might call the Stratford-upon-Detroit-River school of automobile design...
...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...
Just once in a while there arrives a motion picture that forces one to admit that Twentieth-Century society has developed a magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made...
...alike turned the same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never occurred even to intelligent Europeans as late as Shakespeare's day to question their existence. The great Elizabethan savant, Dr. Dee, was as much on the alert for phony witchery as the Roman Catholic Church is for phony miracles, but Dr. Dee used "magic" (by royal request) to divine the most propitious day for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and spent most of his life peering into...