Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he does not act his age, John knows that at 77 he cannot count on a long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...
...outrage of Pastor Duncan made good publicity for the flower show; attendance was up some 20,000 over last year. "Toward the end," said one official, "we had more men of the cloth in there than we had flowers...
...Save the Savoye," then took the case to famed Art Critic André Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs in the De Gaulle government. A storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged to find another site. Le Corbusier himself? He appeared a trifle wearied by it all. Said Corbu: "Houses can die as well...
...late 40s when he painted the picture, but he looks ageless, and appears to have been. Someone described him in his last years as "a youth in an old skin." Doubtless he painted the little canvas flat upon his desk, while gazing into a mirror before him. At the end, he lowered his painted eyes...
...end, neither modesty nor sexuality seems the clue to Fragonard's art-though it has full measure of both-but simple happiness most...