Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the instinct of a patrician grandmother, Boston has taken to its bosom all that is dated and fine and foreign in the way of art. The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University is the liveliest school of art history in the U. S.; the Fine Arts Museum is eminent for its scholarly array of Oriental and other treasures; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is probably the choicest large-scale clutter among U. S. private-made-public collections. From these institutions, however, few people would get the idea that there are artists alive and sweating...
Last week Bostonians trooped to the Fine Arts Museum to see the Institute's most independent, smartest exhibition so far: "Sources of Modern Painting." Hung side by side were selected modern paintings from Manet to Dali and the i) older European pictures, 2) primitive pictures, 3) ancient pictures, 4) Japanese prints or 5) photographs with which they were definitely linked in style. No mere repetition of the now familiar facts and Grade A names, the show included such juxtapositions as an early Gauguin and a Kate
President of the Institute is Nathaniel Saltonstall, first cousin of Massachusetts' new Governor. Director is a young (27), bespectacled Harvardman ('33) who studied Fine Arts in college because he thought it was a snap course, wrote the music for a Hasty Pudding show, still likes playing tennis and skiing as much as working with pictures: James Sachs Plaut (rhymes with flout), who was assistant curator of paintings at the Fine Arts Museum before the Institute hired him last year. More young Bostonians went to his show last week than the Museum had seen for years...
...about industry's impact on art, was fond of pointing out that the word "manufacturer" had lost all if its original meaning (hand-maker). Worcester, Mass, is one of the New England towns whose 19th-Century mills and streets bear witness to the loss. But Worcester has a fine Art Museum, and here last week New England scholars and art lovers gathered to ponder the art of mother great manufacturing region when art and manufacturing were...
...fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also went to Nobel Laureate Irene Curie-Joliot (daughter of Marie Curie) and P. Savitch of Paris, who had done work which helped Hahn identify the all-important barium in his bombardment products...