Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked. On a trip to Italy in 1874, he dropped into a small church north of Florence and saw something he liked very much. It was a big, unsigned and undocumented painting of the Nativity, which Shaw felt certain was from the hand of the 16th Century Venetian master, Tintoretto. He bought it and bore it proudly home...
...Portraitist Augustus John and some pretty splashings by top-ranking Honorary Member Winston Churchill. It also boasted one picture that made all the rest look pale: a new 21-by-7-ft. Resurrection by Stanley Spencer, a frayed little sparrow of a man who may well be a modern master...
...Tate Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel...
...London printer named Samuel Richardson helped change the course of literary history by writing that forerunner of the modern novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Fashionable London ladies wept till the rouge ran about Serving Maid Pamela Andrews' trials at the hands of her lecherous master, and marveled at the way she held him at bay with moral philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course...
...Master's Voice. In Newark, Ark., a span of mules heard the opening bars of Mule Train over a nearby jukebox, broke into high gallop at the first "Hiyah," scattered and splattered their load of plows all across town...