Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Israelophile, and never guilty of distinguished sympathy for Jewish problems, TIME remains true to tradition in [its] treatment of Israel's Premier, David Ben-Gurion: By its subtle suggestion that Israel will be an irreligious state . . . By its intelligence-insulting simplification of British treachery in the Middle East as being a mere desire for "stability...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion suggested a compromise: Tsur Israel (Rock of Israel). Zisling still objected. Said he: "Let it not be imposed upon those who believe otherwise ... to say faith in the Rock of Israel . . . The present wording forces upon us an expression of belief to which we do not subscribe." Ben-Gurion had the last word: "Each of us in his own way believes in the Rock of Israel as he understands it. I know what is the Rock of Israel upon which I rely. I am sure that Rabbi Fishman knows well in whom he believes...
Naked Heroes. A pupil of his great-uncle Francois Boucher, David was brought up to be a boudoir painter, trained in the sentimental and erotic elegance that the court demanded. But young David was a difficult student; he simply could not learn to paint charmingly. At 27 he took off for Rome, looked at the statues and pictures, and came back a fighting antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudit...
Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...
Scrubbed Paintings. The 144 Davids on exhibition in Paris last week had been gathered from all over France, from Belgium, and Manhattan. To prepare for the show, experts had spent almost a year cleaning the dun varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...