Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, teachers have beseeched parents to lend a hand in schools. Lexington, Mass. has found a way to put them to work. Last week, when Art Teacher Paul Ciano wanted technical advice, all he had to do was flip open a fat new directory of citizen volunteers. He picked out a professional painter, a package designer and an M.I.T. professor of sculpture-all enrolled in a unique campaign to prod outside talent into the town's classrooms...
...middle-aged Italian building-materials tycoon. Under his loving care, the fat duckling slimmed herself from 213 Ibs. into a glamorous creature, and became the most fabulously acclaimed opera singer of her time. The tokens of their happiness accumulated: a villa at Sirmione, two palaces in Verona, numerous art objects, jewelry, autos, motorboats and joint bank accounts. Their love, it seemed, thrived on money, and money thrived on love. And yet last week, after ten years of this golden idyl. Callas, 35, and Meneghini, 64, announced that they were "definitely and irreparably" separated...
...their cheerful bobbing and spinning helped many an observer find and appreciate other motions in nature. To turn from a pond or a tree tossing in the wind to look at an outdoor Calder, and then back again, can be one of the most rewarding experiences in modern art...
...that culminated in a surrealistic burst of four days' combat at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He was gassed and invalided. Instead of returning to teaching at war's end. he took an ex-soldier's educational grant and enrolled in the School of Art at Leeds...
There, in the library he discovered Roger Fry's Vision and Design, with its contention that there was more power and freedom of form in the sculpture of African savages than in most "civilized" art. The idea struck Moore's imagination as sharply as a chisel striking stone. After two years at Leeds, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London and discovered the primitive sculpture in the British Museum. "I was in a daze of excitement. I would literally float home on the top of an open-deck...