Word: avidity
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...firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It was obvious from the start that the bank would need large paintings for its wall space, which meant for the most part picking abstractions. The art committee was well suited to that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; Robert Hale, curator of American painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Johnson Sweeney, then director of the Guggenheim Museum; and Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
...exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe and Sir Walter Scott were admirers; and Anatole France remembered having dreams about Callot's graphic nightmares. In the last movement of his first symphony, Gustav Mahler included a Funeral March in Callot's Manner...
Jones said yesterday that the work of the committee "can be done by the FBI in a more legal and orderly procedure." "The Committee spends time on its own particular definition of un-American," Jones said. He suggested that it should investigate the John Birch Society, in avid Communist-hunting group based in Belmont: "I can't imagine anything more thoroughly un-American...
...marriage he has never seen her in the nude. She has submitted to him, but with no obvious enthusiasm. Now, as middle age slows him down, he fears that his inadequacy will destroy their marriage, for he suspects that Ikuko, even though she is undemonstrative about sex, is really avid for it. Papa adopts a program that may well offend readers who have never before thought of themselves as prim. He takes to French brandy and encourages his wife to get drunk with him. What is more, he encourages Kimura, a young friend of his marriageable daughter, to join them...
Last week's spectators at the Orlando paid $6 just to get into the arena, anted up another $5 if they wanted reserved seats down front. With avid concentration, they followed every move of a band of fierce-eyed battlers that literally would rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...