Word: cecilia
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...ranks of American painters include only two women-Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe [TIME, Sept. 9]." How about Cecilia Beaux...
...humidity at night falls as low as 30%. With his gallery's humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could...
Schmidt chose a varied program wholly devoted to intriguing and rather out-of-the-way items. The opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...
...Lebanon, which boasts some of the best-preserved Roman ruins in existence. At festival time, Baalbek's streets are emptied of the sheep and goats usually being driven to market by Arab tribesmen, are filled instead with foreign cars. This year's highlights: Rome's Santa Cecilia orchestra, two nights of Lebanese dances and village songs. More dramatic than the music are the floodlit temples of Jupiter and Bacchus, which form a backdrop for the performers. Last season there were so many visitors that the government's Department of Antiquities had to move...
...Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposhkin, chairman of the Astronomy Department, commented yesterday that direction and the shapes of the orbits of Neptune's satellites indicate that they have had an "exciting adventure." She termed Kuiper's theory "plausible, but not certain by any means...