Word: enlivenment
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...Museum. During the last 13 years of his life. Gulbenkian lived in a drearily furnished suite of Lisbon's posh little Hotel Aviz, voluntarily separated from his wife and family and the paintings which he sentimentally called "my children." When an old friend pressed him to enliven the bare walls of his rooms with at least one painting, Gulbenkian replied in a rare moment of embitterment, "Do you honestly suppose that besides myself there are fifty men in the world who look at my collection other than through a mist of dollars?" Lost in the mist of millions himself...
Large & Small. Today Calder mobiles grace living rooms from Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro, hang in museums from Massachusetts to Moscow, enliven public and business buildings from Beirut to New York's International Airport (see color page). A water-ballet fountain performs at Detroit's General Motors Technical Center; a 21-ft. motorized, mobile-topped stabile called The Whirling Ear guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation...
...Steve Allen, sometime author (FOURTEEN FOR TONIGHT), was merely trying to enliven an Authors' League of America dinner, but he planted the germ seed of a new lazy man's parlor game when he introduced Allen's Scrambled Book List. Some samples...
...have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return to his alma mater as its first Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, a chair that was set up to enliven the undergraduate intellectual fare by giving an especially distinguished scholar a "roving commission" to explore and teach as freely as he wants...
...main spark of this intra-House rapport is Housemaster Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History. Since his appointment as Master two years ago, he has improved tutor-student relationships, worked to enliven interest in House activities, and wrecked Hurricane Carol's plan of 1954 to destroy the House courtyard forever. The Kirkland Senior Tutor is Robert M. O'Clair, who has also aided faculty-student integration by his nursing of nascent House dramatic groups...