Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good friends on TIME are NATIONAL AFFAIRS Editor Max Ways and London Bureau Chief André Laguerre. A strong bond between them is their fond devotion to the ancient, if somewhat occult, science of handicapping. Ways regards Laguerre as the sage of Paris' Longchamp and London's Ascot, while Laguerre considers Ways nonpareil when it comes to picking them at New York's Belmont and Miami's Hialeah. Last week the old friends were getting ready to trade these special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
Suffocating Clutter. In 20 years the clutter in Opera News's office on Manhattan's Madison Ave. has grown to the point of suffocation-fading autographed photos of opera stars cover the walls, documents stuff ancient filing cabinets. Editor Peltz's green tin lunchbox sinks into a deeper litter of folders and memos each day, as she tackles the problems of writing about an opera (the broadcast one) 20 weeks a year, year after year. As one example, to keep from repeating itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every...
...Holy Thursday of 1956, the Garden of Gethsemane glows with flowers beneath its ancient olive trees-the poppies and daisies, the groundsel, ranunculus, garlic and blue lupine that grew wild there when Jesus sweated blood in the agony of His prayer: "My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me." In the grotto nearby, where Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss, the murals from the Byzantine and Crusader periods have peeled away, and the air is still dank from the winter's rains...
...door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast. A bright red poster on an ancient wall nearby advertises an American movie, Massacre Canyon...
...manifestation of the visual arts appreciation has been the response to Fogg's exhibitions. One on French drawing attracted nearly 20,000 people in two weeks, and another on Ancient Art drew some 3,000 on the last Sunday of the exhibition. The Museum is therefore producing major shows like the recent Reubens exhibit, in which all but one or two of the Reubens drawings and oil sketches in the country were shown, with some degree of regularity, usually one a year...