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...times, as in "Simon Prophesying Over the infant Christ," the composition seems artificial and the colors weak. The composition of all the works is contrived, but Blake usually uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and inward toward the center, where often a great figure of good or evil protects or destroys. Sometimes the composition is unconventional, as in "Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep," where the strange, vivid seen, the striking composition, and the ennobled character of the figures make one realize that William Blake...
...After that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...
These, he explained, reflect heat waves upward like a Turkish bath. Living things, however, such as trees, grass, and well-filled strapless bathing suits absorb the sun's rays, and proximity to them makes for a cooling effect...
Declaring at the outset that "now is no time for onward and upward speeches," Hartz compared the two years since V-J Day to the days of the 1920s which followed World War I. He said that the same misunderstanding of the real meaning of peace that existed then prevails today...
...Bull Market? The stockmarket, moving onward & upward for the eighth week in a row, reached a new high for the year. This prompted some financial writers to talk about "the new bull market now under way." The Dow-Jones industrial averages climbed 3.01 points to 184.77, the highest since last August...