Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Paris last week came word that UNESCO has commissioned six of the world's leading artists to adorn its new headquarters. One of the biggest commissions, for a conference room mural covering 1,100 sq. ft., was by no means likely to please some of UNESCO's more vociferous U.S. critics; it went to Millionaire Communist Pablo Picasso...
...defend this or that 'ism.' " "There is room in America," adds Philosopher T. V. Smith, "for all kinds of intelligence and for rewards befitting each kind. But those who sit on the Left Bank and howl at the Right neither facilitate the flow of the river nor adorn their own bank as the river flows by. Here, as elsewhere, it is only those who know not what to trust that trust they know not what...
...best Department of Health, Education, and Welfare known. John Finley could head the Department of Labor and Steve Aaron would become curator of a Bureau of National Culture. The mint would present some problems, since a new currency would be necessary. A picture of Dean Bundy, however, could adorn the one dollar bill, Master Perkins the five, and John R. Thompson on the hundred. The thousand would remain bland until someone donates a new theatre. The revenue problem would be solved by a toll road on Mass. Avenue, a sales tax on the Bick, the Waldorf, Elsie's and Cahaly...
...Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome background for something, but this is not what he intended, any more than the makers of the medieval tapestries meant merely to adorn palaces. It seems highly doubtful that such art as Rothko's will some day seem as meaningful as the tapestries, yet it is possible. Such paintings may be as little as mere decoration or they may be as much as glimpses of a spiritual world awaiting an observer's ability...
...scarcely a symphony or opera company is missing the chance to adorn itself with the Mozart halo. And the most readable biography of him was reissued (see below...