Word: easels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking bearishly cherubic in his fur-collared greatcoat, Sir Winston Churchill, 82, slowly debarked from a plane at London Airport after a two-month holiday on the French Riviera. His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples...
...real family rows or fatherly rages, only mention of them. Even where-and it is never for long-Playwright Alexander casts a satiric eye on the characters, he keeps a concerned one on the audience. He at least uses no come-ons: even in Paris, even among the easel-and-keyboard set, far from resisting temptation, his young people never encounter...
...necessary to provide jobs for our people." But he turned down committee invitations to suggest ways of trimming President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion fiscal-1958 budget (TIME, Jan. 28). Urged Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, pointing to a display of budget charts on an easel: "Take your scissors right now and point out places where it could be cut." A bit wistfully, Humphrey replied: "If I knew, I would have done so long...
Hopper yearned simply to "paint sunlight on the side of a house." But his oils lacked the gusto then in fashion. They showed an almost obsessive fear of the flourish. Xo one wanted them. For a whole decade he practically ceased 'painting them. His empty easel was wasteland, and within himself lay wilderness. His friends heard nothing from him; apparently he had gone under...
...place consists chiefly of two studios, his and hers. Josephine Hopper's studio is cheery and crowded with pictures; his is bright, bare, orderly and dominated by a loft. high easel. Hopper built the easel himself, shortly after moving into the studio 43 long years ago. Perhaps twice a year he puts a canvas on it and paints steadily, averaging a month to finish a picture. The rest of the time it stands empty, while he broodingly tries to visualize his next work...