Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill were surprised beneficiaries of the estate of the late Albert H. Phillips of Eastbourne, England, but got no part of his estimated $76,000 cash bequests. Instead, "as a tribute of respect for their outstanding qualities of leadership," each was willed a watercolor painting by obscure 19th-Century Artist John Callow (for Roosevelt: New York Harbour; for Churchill: Fishing Boat...
International music circles, remembering Strauss's huge international royalties in the past, knowing him for a highly practical artist, were inclined to discount the heroism in his stubbornness. On the other hand, it was quite conceivable that the 80-year-old composer might have balked at riding the few remaining miles to music's Valhalla aboard the Nazi bandwagon...
...Julie Haydon, is properly whining and pasty-faced. Her part is an extremely difficult one to play, and only in some of her more intense scenes does she seem to be completely at ease. Robert Perry and Louise Valery draw adequate but rather broadly conceived portraits of a sensitive artist and his wife. Richard Hart, Marjorie Peggs, Kathryn Cameron round out the major speaking parts...
...British to sing at a concert in Rome, then disinvited at the last moment by U.S. Army officials, after his fellow Romans sounded off about his late pro-fascism (TIME, June 19). Gigli, whose announced selection for the concert was I Close My Eyes to Dream, declared himself an artist, not a politician, said: "I'll sing for the British and Americans . . . but I'll never sing for the Italians again...
...supple, varied, quick, humorous, was a constant preoccupation with religious problems so difficult that their very statement is tedious to the plain reader. Thomas Mann makes it plain that Joseph was a great religious poet. For, among many other things, Mann's Joseph is a portrait of the artist as a God-guided egoist...