Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rotating Nursemaids. Milton earned his elder brother's respect the hard way. Back in Abilene, Kans., where he was born on Sept. 15, 1899, the only bonds uniting the latest arrival to his six older brothers, including Dwight, then almost nine, were those imposed by duty and family. Milton was a sore disappointment to David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower, who yearned for a daughter. "My father was sorry he never had a girl," recalls brother Earl. "He used to sit on our front porch and make friends with every little girl that came by. I know...
...audience holding hands with his 31-year-old wife, his former secretary whom he married a year and a half ago. That scene offered a clue to the proceedings onstage. More than any of his previous plays, or most of his poems, T. S. Eliot's The Elder Statesman extols love. Compared to The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk-intellectual avocados spiky with Greek myths and Christian mysticism-Eliot's latest seems as simple as the peach that Prufrock was once afraid...
...whom the young Claverton seduced; in true Victorian melodramatic fashion, Claverton's father had squelched her breach-of-promise suit with cash. Now she accuses her former lover of having posed as a man of the world during their affair, just as he has since posed as an elder statesman: "You'll still be playing a part in your obituary, whoever writes...
...Observer's Kenneth Tynan crashed through with "banal." U.S. audiences may have a chance to judge for themselves before long. The play is scheduled to move to London later this month, but at week's end Producer Henry Sherek was mulling "most flattering offers" to transport The Elder Statesman direct from Edinburgh to Broadway...
Hanging the paintings is a persistent problem. Arriving without timetable, the works, ranging from Lucas Cranach the Elder to Picasso, were hard to group by theme or period, but "Paintings from Private Collections" is one of the Met's best ventures. So far, some 70,000 visitors have flocked in to see it. Prize items: ¶ Florentine Mannerist Jacopo Pontormo's rarely exhibited Halberdier (owner: Chauncey Stillman...