Word: flemish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...loans of 857 first-rate paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in the cellar, is resplendent with Botticelli, Cranach, Tiepolo and Titian. There are scads of Flemish masters, but not a scrap of canvas from 19th century France, whose artists Hitler scorned as the fathers of decadent modernism...
Nervous, introverted, Brassens does not savor the notoriety. Son of a Flemish bricklayer, he was raised in the Mediterranean village of Séte. He quit school before graduating and, at 18, worked at odd jobs, wrote poetry and bummed around the cafes. In 1952, friends took him to a tiny club run by Patachou, Paris' famed chanteuse, and goaded him into singing. One week later he was the sensation of Paris...
...Ghelderode (1898-1962) could justly be called an excellent obscure Flemish playwright if his works had not become so highly regarded in French, Belgian, and German theatre in the last decade. This year George Hauger completed two paperback volumes of translations of his plays, and Tufts apparently adopted Miss Jairus as soon as the English text became available...
...BELGIAN VILLAGE gets an A for architecture-a delightful replica of a Flemish town-but bad marks for allowing pizza parlors and egg-roll stands to compete with colorful shops selling crepes suzette, Belgian cookies, lace and crystal...
BELGIAN VILLAGE advertised itself for months as being "worth waiting for." Open at last, it has proved something of a disappointment, since its charming, smaller-than-life evocation of an ancient Flemish town is still not complete. It may be worth waiting for a while longer...