Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucy was naturally invited to Warm Springs in April 1945, when F.D.R. went south to try to recover his strength. She was accompanied by an artist friend, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who was to paint a portrait of the President...
...area of expertise that Nelson stumbled. He decided to cover a wall of the main building at Rockefeller Center with a mural worthy of St. Sophia, and he commissioned the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, a celebrated Communist, to paint it. All went well until an unmistakable likeness of Lenin turned up in the mural. That was not acceptable in the citadel of capitalism in the 1930s. "As much as I dislike to do so," Nelson wrote Rivera, "I'm afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears...
...Rewards. Despite such setbacks, Sepe estimates that his sentences have been "over 95% successful." Michael Garrett, 24, was an unemployed artist when he was convicted of possession and sale of cocaine. Sepe ordered him to teach art to mentally retarded children at Miami's Hope School. To Garrett, the experience was the most rewarding of his life; he now is part of the school's paid staff. Carl Dachton had a similar experience. A gun-shop owner held in contempt for temporarily returning a customer's guns in violation of a court order, he was required...
Tired from this arduous introspection, you shrug your shoulders, call yourself an artist, and order another drink...
Under the trying circumstances, nothing Sandy does seems inappropriate. The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself. She has an artist's sense of what is real and what is merely tactful. When her husband's doctor cops out and leaves her to tell Jay that his illness is incurable, Sandy's instincts are superb: "I wanted to do it while he was still able to walk. It seemed immoral somehow to tell a dying man the miserable and imminent truth when he was helpless, lying...