Word: admirerers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hero in Trouble. In Cambodia, this was all right with everybody. Besides, Sam Sary was somebody special. As a delegate to the Geneva Conference that ended the Indo-Chinese war in 1954, Sam Sary had become a hero by leading the fight to prevent partition of Cambodia between Communists and...
With his smartly clipped beard, fawn-colored trousers and "killing cravat," Littlefield was a kind of one-man giveaway show. As one admirer put it: "With money he was as free as water, and when he had no money was just as free with checks." All through the late 1860s...
Louis Philippe, "the Citizen King," sent his agent, Baron Taylor, to investigate the possibilities in Spain with 1,327,000 francs ($252,130), got back a staggering 412 Spanish paintings plus 41 Italian and northern works of art. Added to these were 220 canvases willed by Scottish Admirer F. Hall...
Critics find in the Sardinian bronzes a curious foreshadowing of works by such contemporaries as Henry Moore, Marino Marini. Georges Braque-and with good reason. One of the strongest moves in 20th century sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and...
The blowoff comes when Catherine refuses to be a one-man woman and insists on reserving her weekends for an old admirer. "I don't belong to anybody." says Catherine bitterly, meaning, as she unconsciously meant at the beginning of the affair, that she belongs to herself. A chastened...