Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...
...Apennines behind and the valley of the Arno below, Bernard Berenson applied his gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that Berenson became rich. In the 40 rooms of the Villa I Tatti he collected a profusion...
...Idaho. Straight down Third Street South, past the Pacific Fruit Express yards, a car raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous cell while officers examined "love letters from a dozen women" found...
Bibliophiles are responsible for Bruce Rogers' reputation as "a limited editions man." But expensive limited editions, such as his Montaigne and Oxford Bible, account only indirectly for Bruce Rogers' influence on U. S. and British bookmaking. Far more influential were the trade editions he designed during his 17 years with Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. More concrete is his influence on such disciples as Milton Click, chief designer for Viking Press, whose books are among the most attractive now published. "B. R." is not particularly interested in de luxe editions as such. Of his 400-odd books...
...populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet from James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Lama Bernard's account should be an eye-opener...