Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory of this fellowship I carry emblazoned on my fading consciousness. It is the memory of staggering upstairs from the dining hall to my moist and tropical room, my belly swelled with an evening feast of boiled potato, wads of creamy butter, rice pudding, French bread, crispy pie crust and glass upon glass of tepid milk. (It is of such starch that tomorrow's leaders are made.) It is the memory of a genial House superintendent humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory...
Tales and Last Tales (TIME, Nov. 4). In Babette's Feast, a French cook wins a small fortune in a lottery and spends every penny of it showing her staid, stingy Norse employers what a real meal can be. In Tempests, the actress who is to play Ariel in The Tempest gets caught in a real storm at sea and becomes a heroine by behaving as Shakespeare has taught her to behave...
...painters used their year abroad to feast their eyes, rather than to pick up the mannerisms of a foreign school. They soaked in "the golden glow of Rome," tingled to the spirit of Paris that "sped up the spin of idea and image." James Harvey in Egypt quarried into Coptic and Islamic art, felt that "through these art forms one sees the landscape of the Near East." Daniel Dickerson painted dhoti-clad Indians in a Rajasthan marketplace, tired porters in a Bangalore railway station...
...picking and choosing, Father Daly had a feast no plain collector could ever dream of equaling. Spread out before him were sacred and profane works never, or rarely, exhibited. Items: a 9th century copy of Terence's comedies, with illustrations showing actors in the authentic costumes of ancient Rome; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's 13th century manual on falconry; an illustrated sth century copy of Vergil. He also saw many Bibles -but none that surpasses in beauty the work commissioned by Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1444-82), and one of the keenest bibliophiles...
FESTIVALGOERS at Edinburgh are getting a feast i of art such as has been assembled in Europe only twice before in this century. Spread out before them are more than 250 objects covering the whole richness of Byzantine art, from its glowing mosaics to its small ivories, enamels, rich metal work and superb icons (religious images). Rarest dish: a host of icons sent abroad for the first time from great collections in Turkey, Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. The total effect is a reminder that for more than a thousand years, from the sack of Rome...