Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fine Arts in Richmond on Nov. 27. It is the fruit of several years' research by Art Historians William Agee, director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Barbara Rose. As an American painter, Agee claims in his excellent catalogue, Bruce "ranks with or surpasses the best of his generation and far outdistances a hundred artists whose reputations maintain secure places in our histories." Whether or not this is strictly true, we are still left with a very considerable painter, seen whole- or almost whole- for the first time...
...conservative" aspects of John Paul perplexed some observers last week, there is an organic connection between them. A man who has observed the survival of his church against heavy pressures in Poland is likely to believe that in the West, too, a disciplined and doctrinally unified church is best equipped to struggle with the evils of society. In America, at least, he may be about to test that judgment...
...talked so often about his need for no more than three hours' sleep a night that the story has become enshrined in biographies. A half-truth at best. When the Ford Motor Co. archives were opened in 1951, researchers found many pictures of Henry Ford and his pal Edison in laboratories, at meetings and on outings. In some of these photos, Ford seemed attentive and alert, but Edison could be seen asleep - on a bench, in a chair, on the grass. His secret weapon was the catnap, and he elevated it to an art. Recalled one of his associates...
...Bovary, c'est moi,"Brooks could c'est the same of Lou, Ted, Rhoda, Phyllis, Murray and the always resistible Sue Ann. "I've identified with everybody but Mary," he admits. Ted's meeting with his long-lost father, the plot of one of the best MTM shows, was based on Brooks' meeting with his own dad, whom he also had not seen in years. Told that he was in a hospital in New Jersey, Brooks walked in and saw a man so old and decrepit that he was stunned. "I said, 'Daddy...
...vast wise beasts of former times, they are endearing, almost toys for children. The children are heartbreaking now. In those times, the children of the Giants, the Natives' children, were each one born after such deliberation, such thought, each one chosen and from parents known to be the best. . . each with such a long life, time to grow, time to play, time to think, time to ripen their inner selves and grow fully into themselves. Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly, of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they...