Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your splendid article about Missileman Bernard Schriever is most inspiring and comforting for the free world - in case trouble comes...
...Bernard Cohen, professor of the History of Science, has won the book prize of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, it was announced yesterday...
...three principals are supported by Peggy Lapsley, Walter Farnham, and Eleanor Mayher, who play loyal believers in the medium's powers. Music Director Bernard E. Kreger has ably welded them into a clear, understandable ensemble, and all three, but particularly Miss Lapsley, perform with distinction...
...Traitor." The break between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the middle of an auction room. "Monsieur Gauguin," she cried, "you are a traitor. You have violated your pledge and are doing the greatest harm to my brother, who has been the true initiator of the art which you now claim for yourself." According to Bernard, "Gauguin did not answer, and withdrew...
Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...