Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, artist Ben Shahn, has focussed attention on the problem of the creative artist at Harvard. The University's scholarly orientation, while having its positive values, does tend to stifle original art in the student...
Next morning, surprisingly brisk and bright-eyed, he turned up at his office for the first time in a fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...
Then he sat down to write a speech taking back all his victorious vaunts of two nights before. At 12:30 a.m., delayed until his reply to Eisenhower was in Washington and thus free to be broadcast, Ben-Gurion's speech of abnegation went on the air. Hoarse and halting, the patriarch spoke his surrender: "The government is prepared to withdraw its forces from the territory of Egypt immediately after the entry of the international emergency force into the canal zone...
Again the Guerrillas. At this stunning reversal, requiring surrender of conquests almost three times the country's size, the flush of victory vanished from Israel. "It took us only one week to conquer the Sinai desert," said a Jerusalem schoolteacher, "and only one day to lose it." Perhaps Ben-Gurion never intended to keep Sinai ("We want no more desert"), but he had obviously hoped to bargain with it for his minimum demands: 1) peace on the border; 2) possession of the Gaza Strip and of islands in the Gulf of Aqaba; 3) the right to move Israeli cargoes...
...Modern Art's "Masters of British Paint ing" show, is a 150-year survey of 31 artists (see color pages), ranging from the visions of William Blake to the hallucinatory portraits of Francis Bacon, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to the cool, elegant abstractions of Ben Nicholson and Stanley Spencer's portrayal of a New Jerusalem near his green and pleasant home town of Cookham (TIME...