Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black was the color of the evening. Never before had a White House dinner been so dominated by Negroes, and never before had a U.S. artist of the masses been so honored. "I voted against Nixon three times since 1960," said one black musician from California, "but after tonight, he could run for Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Washington's National Gallery, all from the private collection of Paul Mellon, president of the gallery. It was Constable's moral feeling for the countryside of England, outgoing Gallery Director John Walker points out in the catalogue, that is his principal achievement. "More than any other artist, he was able to embody in paint Wordsworth's 'Impulse from a Vernal Wood,' " Walker writes. "He remains among artists the high priest of pantheism, the primate of a new religion of natural beauty...
Died. Julius Katchen, 42, U.S. concert pianist and recording artist, considered one of the world's foremost performers of Brahms; of cancer; in Paris. A New Jersey-born child prodigy who made his debut at eleven, Katchen won acclaim for his brilliant performances of Brahms' complete solo works, also recorded some of Beethoven's major concertos and was at home throughout the range of classical repertory. Though he was well enough known at home, his greatest popularity was in Europe, where he spent most of his adult life, exemplifying in his playing the ambience of an older...
Rightest Kind. Fitzgerald-not coincidentally, one of her favorite authors -surely could have written her biography. Born into a middle-class family in Pound Ridge, N.Y., she had most of the right things: "artist parents," an education on scholarship at Rosemary Hall and Wellesley, a job as an editorial assistant to Diana Vreeland on Harper's Bazaar, even marriage to a good-looking Harvard grad. The marriage went nowhere for two years, then ended in a quiet divorce. "He was a nice guy," she says now. "We just had nothing in common. Nothing...
...other films (The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah), Director James Ivory proves a precise and witty landscape artist. The Victorians may have traded in silks and spices, but, as Ivory shows, today's Elizabethans are in the culture export-import business. The proof is provided in contradictory fragments: a sitar sits near a hi-fi rig; a girl is dubbed a beauty queen with a rhinestone coronet that matches the jewel in her nose; groupies sleep on a temple's tessellated floors...