Word: dones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still highly disturbed about government-by-leak when he went to his press conference last week. Asked whether Secretary of State Christian Herter had discussed a new job for Bohlen. the President replied that Herter had twice brought up the newspaper stories, but "had done nothing about it," and added that "his report to me was completely negative." When an astonished reporter attempted to point out that Herter had confirmed at his own press conference that he was trying to persuade Bohlen to come to Washington, Ike angrily cut the question off, snapped: "I don't care what...
...well-heeled, new suburban town of Bellevue, Wash. (pop. 12,500), which lies just across Lake Washington from the skyscrapers of Seattle, George Brain has done a notable job of making democratic education flexible enough to give every youngster a chance at a good education. Taking over as the state's youngest superintendent six years ago, Brain proceeded, on the basis of a comprehensive and deep-delving planning survey, to put together a $45 million system of eleven elementary, three junior high and two senior high schools in a community that was little more than a little-red-schoolhouse...
Before his early death in 1609, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted no fewer than three St. Jeromes. The most renowned version is in Rome's Villa Borghese, but the best-done from the same model-may well be Montserrat's. The Montserrat canvas shows the saint in repose, with only a skull for company, in peaceful contemplation. It has all the power of Caravaggio's drawing, which influenced Rubens. It is a striking example of Caravaggio's favorite color combination-red and black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist...
...drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...
...Broadway has done everything to destroy the American theatre in the smug knowledge that nothing can destroy it," said Louis Kronenberger, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of English, last Thursday evening...