Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year TIME ran 162 four-color editorial pages. An additional 52 four-color pages were devoted to TIME'S covers, which were painted by such noted artists as Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Aaron Bohrod, Bernard Buffet, Boris Chaliapin, James Chapin, Peter Hurd, John Koch, Henry Koerner, Bernard Safran, Ben Shahn, Rufino Tamayo, Robert Vickrey and Andrew Wyeth...
Along with Soustelle, De Gaulle sacked Communications Minister Bernard Cornut-Gentille, 50, also for "softness" toward the insurgents. Four other Cabinet ministers were reassigned, including Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat, who was kicked upstairs to the job of Minister Delegate in charge of atomic energy. To replace Guillaumat, De Gaulle called from active duty with the paratroops in Algeria Reserve Lieut. Colonel Pierre Messmer, 43, a career colonial administrator. There was not a man left in the Cabinet with any political strength independent of De Gaulle...
...YEAR'S READING FOR FUN (166 pp.)-Bernard Berenson-Knopf...
...late Bernard Berenson called World War II a "manquake" and calmly retired to his book-lined storm cellar-the 50,000-volume library he had amassed 'at his famed Tuscan villa, / Tatti, near Florence. This took a certain amount of fatalism in wartime Italy, Nazi Germany's ally, since Berenson was born a Jew (he was converted to Roman Catholicism), and his only safety lay in a promise from Mussolini's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, that he would not be molested. The master pundit of Renaissance art, his ailing wife Mary (who died...
...Berenson's entries are highly esoteric, and his scorn of modern literature very nearly amounts to a total eclipse of what was around him. He thought the works of T. S. Eliot, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Faulkner and Hemingway largely rubbish. But even Aladdin had only one lamp, and Bernard Berenson had burnished his insights too long over the magnificence of Renaissance Italy to find the modern age other than trifling and tawdry. At book's end he seems to step back into a quattrocento painting like a visitor returning to "a fairer world, where lovely people were taking...