Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art...
...Bonn government on its offer to foot half the cost of their purchases. The State Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...then, he had developed both the taste and the wherewithal needed to build a great personal collection. Art lovers regularly called at his Swiss villa. If they were lucky, there was a sumptuous lunch and good conversation, and then a stroll through the spacious gardens adjoining the mansion...
...growing up among them, creating in the process a nation of characters. Their names have changed from book to book and story to story, but they have remained fixed in their variety: rabbis and sinners, intellectuals and simpletons, rationalists and mystics, world savers and fatalists. Singer's art has transformed them all into uncommon clay...
Critics sometimes complain about how many of Singer's characters behave irrationally and about how many of his plots hinge on the machinations of dybbuks or the fist of fate. Such readers forget the most important ingredient in the ancient art of storytelling that Singer practices: wonder, awe at a world that can contain such deeds and such doers. Aaron echoes his creator when he complains about the cold passion for explanations: "Who says that everything nature or human nature does can be expressed in motives and words? I had been aware for a long time that literature could...