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Given that so much of late Renoir seems saccharine and semicomical to us, is it still possible to see what made it modern to them?

From Time • Feb. 18, 2010

The first six stanzas are semiserious, semicomical, but I always read the last stanza with caution, in case my voice should break.

From Time Magazine Archive