Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls, indeed, arrest the eye, encircling an irregularly shaped shaft of space and supporting an inclined plane whose waist high, fragile balcony has been said to invite suicides. Annexed to the dome which houses the art is a small auditorium, whose peaceful proportions contrast dramatically with those turbulent ones of the dome itself...
...fade: truth is no longer the hard, shiny thing to pick up and store away; Quincy House has ceased to represent perfection. There has been "an unavoidable delay in completing the house's interior." And so, like the man who came to dinner, the Fuller Construction Company must remain; Art has been postponed for several fortnights at least...
Riches in Failure. Ber enson earned every one of his pleasures and treasures, has bequeathed his villa with its library and collection to Harvard as a center for Italian art studies. The son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Boston, he got his education (Boston University and Harvard) on scholarships, was sponsored by Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner, whose collection he largely formed. Before the turn of the century he had made his fame as an art expert when he audaciously announced that about 75% of the Renaissance paintings in a major exhibition in London were either copies or attributed...
...loathes all actors, gives him the brush. Meanwhile the hero's girl comes east, gets a job, persuades him to marry her, gets pregnant, begs him to quit the stage, loses hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every possible vicissitude of a Broadway career-from Sorry, You're Not the Type to the Faithless Friend to the Marriage of Ambition to the McCarthy Blacklist to the Job as a Waiter at Sardi...
...Kaplan's daymares is Mr. Parkhill (Hyman renders it "Pockheel"), the earnest and durable idealist who teaches the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Parkhill's melting pot simmers with some flavorful characters, though their jokes are unlikely to revive the vanishing art of dialect humor. To class repeaters, including Miss Mitnick. the blushing birddog of blackboard errors. Author Rosten has added some newcomers. There is Mr. Matsoukas. a muttering Greek for whom derivation is the mother of invention (" 'Automobile' is Grik! 'Airplane' is Grik! 'Telephone...