Word: bequestioned
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...Metropolitan Museum of Art, musing on the late Adelaide de Groot, heiress to a vast fortune derived from her father's success in the China trade. "The more presentable junior employees had to take turns squiring her around, pushing her wheelchair. And all to get that damn bequest...
...bequest was considerable, but so is the acrimony it has since roused. In the past year, the Met has quietly sold or traded off 50 of the 211 paintings Adelaide de Groot willed to the museum on her death in 1967, including works by Rousseau, Modigliani, Picasso, Gris and Bonnard. The New York Times's persistent reporting of this, over the past five months, has taken on the character of a vendetta. Sometimes the Times seems to hint darkly at sins where there were no sins-or at most only dubious transactions. But the publicity has caused a violent...
HARVARD RECEIVED BLACK ROCK Forest from Ernest G. Stillman '08 upon his death in 1949. Stillman engaged in lengthy negotiations with the University, which refused to accept the bequest until he had included a generous endowment. The Black Rock Forest Trust Fund currently totals over $1.8 million. More than 75 per cent of its resources have been diverted to other Harvard needs, leaving the forest itself with a minimal budget...
...built to house Johnson's private bequest to the University of Texas -the 31 million documents that range from his days as a Congressman through his days as President. It may be that no politician has ever been so gripped by the indiscriminate urge to retain everything he produced, initialed, touched or was sent. The spectrum of use to future historians is, to put it mildly, wide: the papers range from still-classified material on Viet Nam to a covering note sent by Richard Nixon in 1951 to accompany a 3-lb. box of jumbo deluxe dried California figs...
From Memory. The word Impressionism was coined by a hostile critic from one of Monet's paintings of 1872, Impression: Sunrise, which by virtue of a chance bequest in 1948 was one of the few paintings the Marmottan already owned (and may be the only clue to why Monet fils chose the Marmottan). To the end of his life, Monet insisted that his one achievement was to have worked "directly from nature, striving to render my impressions in the face of the most fugitive effects...