Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries, the French city of Limoges was split wide open. The Château was ruled by the viscount, the Cité dominated by the bishop, and both camps were rent by war, pestilence, and famine. Yet even in the time of its greatest troubles, Limoges kept producing enamelwork that was the envy of Christendom...
...read in TIME, July 26, about the aged Chinese painter, Ch'ih Pai-shih . . . According to your article he sells his pictures for a dollar. Knowing a bargain when I hear about one in the art market, I sent him $1 cash . . . and today the picture really arrived, a traditional Chinese brush painting of a pair of shrimps. His calligraphy is gross but his figures are sensitive and beautiful...
...Ch'ih writes as follows: "I am nearly 90 years of age and I want more time to rest, so I charge U.S. $11 per sq. foot for my paintings abroad. I hope all is well with you." Also, he wants ... "a copy of the American magazine in which someone has written about...
...Carlos Chávez' best defense was his record-and the fact that two of the youngsters he was accused of holding back are now conducting two of Mexico's seven symphony orchestras. His conservatory is full of students able for the first time to get complete training without leaving Mexico (although his critics impatiently say that "it hasn't yet produced one first-rate anything"). This fall the Institute will stage three commissioned one-act operas on Mexican themes. The drama department is drawing crowds. Chávez had cannily priced the tickets just under...
Working full-time as a cultural executive, Composer Chávez at 49 has had little time to turn out any more music like his fine, cactus-flavored Indian Symphony or his Antigone Symphony. So now, every fourth week, he skips town with his wife, Pianist Otilia Ortiz, to one of the several places about the country where they have pianos cached, to work undisturbed. By fall he wants to finish a violin concerto, get on with his third symphony. Growls Chávez: "Leisure. I need leisure, as a banker needs leisure to run his business...