Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mansfield of Montana proposed that the Democrats arm themselves with four assistant whips to aid Louisiana's Russell Long, the Democratic whip. He recommended Maryland's Daniel Brewster, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Maine's Edmund Muskie. Democrats gave unanimous approval to both plan and candidates. Some saw Mansfield's move as an attempt to put a brake on the runaway ambitions of Louisiana's Long, who also takes over the duties of chairman of the Finance Committee this session and is believed by some Democrats to have...
...Rubens sold the 7-ft. by 10-ft. oil to the British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...
...Daniel in the Lions' Den is an early Rubens, dating near 1610. It was a popular Biblical subject for Flemish artists. But other representations were pallid compared to Rubens', who, according to Rosenberg, "gets to the heart of it, the drama and significance of the story." Other artists' lions were "only little toys, poodles," by comparison. In keeping with the Renaissance adoration of man, Daniel is more hero than saint...
Executed when Rubens was still in his early 30s, the Daniel reflects the influence of Italy, where he had studied for eight years. But Rubens added his own naturalism. In part, this comes from Rubens' good fortune in having live models close at hand to study. There were no zoos in Italy, but Antwerp, where Rubens lived, boasted one, and there he was able to sketch lions in their coiled-spring power. And it is within the painting's faithfulness to nature that the miracle becomes more believable. Remains of their former meals lie scattered in the foreground...
Died. Noah Greenberg, 46, founder (in 1952) and director of the New York Pro Musica, a group of ten musicians whose performance of the 12th century Play of Daniel revived interest in the all but forgotten music composed during the five centuries before Bach; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Greenberg dressed his players in medieval garb and used original instruments, mostly odd-looking woodwinds with such names as zink, shawm and Rauschpfeife...