Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because they give you form and a grand story. I don't want only form; I want philosophy, love. You can't make a statue of a man and a woman copulating...
...early days, Max Eastman was a fiery socialist editor (the Masses, Liberator), a dedicated sexual adventurer and a noisy defender of Communism. Since the 1940s, he has been a sometime roving editor for the Reader's Digest, a proclaimed expert on Russian skulduggery, and a boastful chronicler of his youthful capacity for hell-raising (Love and Revolution...
...Airline Lift. Some of the come-on reminded Madison Avenue veterans of Adman David Ogilvy's effort to escape anonymity in the late 1940s. Ogilvy sent out salvos of press releases until, as he confessed, competitors complained that "nobody went to the bathroom at our agency without the news appearing in the trade press." Wells herself admits to "a staggering lack of modesty," but her agency has avoided outright flackery-if only because its partners were never quite obscure in the first place...
Died. Archbishop Le Huu Tu, 73, Roman Catholic Vietnamese religious leader and nationalist, who in the late 1940s formed his own paramilitary force to fight with Ho Chi Minh against the French, then in 1954 fled South, where he fought the Communists and, despite failing health, devoted himself to resettling and assisting the 1,000,000 refugees from the North who followed his example; of cancer; in Saigon...
...equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues through his famous "drip" paintings of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and concludes with his anguished return to figuration just before his death...