Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arthritis better after nine months' treatment in a Boston hospital, Raoul Dufy, 73, French master of fine line and delicate color, had some advice for young artists: "The one big fault with Americans is that they do not see what is around them until they see it in a picture . . . the young American artist [should] learn to see, to break himself of the habit of not seeing. I would say to him, break all the cameras, never take a photograph, never look at a photograph. Then paint...
...three years skeptical Frenchmen have watched Le Corbusier's ultramodern "Radiant City" taking form in the suburbs of Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948; June 12, 1950). They found plenty of fault with the 300-family apartment house. The quarters were cramped, the master bedrooms offered hardly any privacy from the living rooms, and windowless kitchens would make it hard for the pungent odors of French cooking to escape, or for French housewives to throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille...
Thanks to Edward Johnson, who brought the best singers of both Europe and the U.S. to the Met, the new manager has the finest roster of singers in the world. If they are not the finest in history, that is less the fault of the Met than of history. Says 70-year-old Mrs. August Belmont, pillar of the Met's board: "Caruso and Chaliapin were the kind of singers who appear only once in a hundred years. Except for them, we have just as good singers today...
...that the Gophers could rely on. Nate Corning, seen in Crimson nets for the first time by this observer, looked like the steadlest goalie the Crimson has had since the war. His stops totalied only 24 Friday and 22 tonight; but he made them when they counted. His only fault scemed to be an inability to hug the pipes as tightly as he should have on shots from the side. Two tonight went between his pads and the pipe...
...pioneer of the airborne assault in World War II, who was in Washington last week as deputy to Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins. Born at Fort Monroe, Va. 55 years ago, Ridgway planned the first large-scale U.S. parachute-troop operation in Sicily (1943). Through no fault of his, that one was a snafu, but he kept on tirelessly pushing the airborne doctrine, jumped with his troops (the 82nd Airborne Division) in Normandy, later became commander of an airborne corps...