Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris critics agree. At an exhibit last week, to celebrate Lurçat's 60th birthday, the experts trooped through rooms of tapestries, paintings, ceramics and illustrations, studied the forms and startling colors, then hurried home to write their critiques. Said Paris' Le Figaro: "Lurçat has reached heights of success higher than was expected. Tapestry is à la mode." Said Le Monde: "Lurçat has made the wool sing again...
...Portland Art Museum on its 60th birthday last week: a collection of 27 Renaissance paintings, including masterpieces by Botticelli, Bellini, Ghirlandajo and the 13th century Florentine Giovanni Cimabue...
Last week in Munich, Painter Dix's stubbornness was rewarded by a big retrospective show in honor of his 60th birthday. While the Nazis and World War II had not stopped his painting, they had radically changed its style. Under "permanent observation" by the Nazis, Dix dropped his brutal social criticism and took to noncommittal expressionist landscapes filled with bright colors and bold patterns. He found life on Lake Constance "idyllic, probably too idyllic...
Special Significance. Such praise comes to each Soviet bigwig on his soth and sometimes his 60th birthday. But there was something in the tone of the Malenkov birthday observance that vibrated political antennae all over the non-Communist world. Soviet censors allowed the Associated Press Moscow bureau to say that it "seemed to have design and special significance." The implication was that Georgy Malenkov, a New Bolshevik who was an adolescent when the Revolution began, had become the likely heir to the aged (72) and ailing Joseph Stalin...
...volume sets a new record for poetical class histories. The previous record-holder was "Poems for the Class of '29," by Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829. Holmes' poems began in 1851 and were produced annually until the 60th reunion of the class...