Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months with short talks on the history of transportation and rubber), one of the five Firestone brothers appears at one time or another to make an appeal for his pet charity (4-H Clubs, Community Chest, Future Farmers of America). And once, musically ambitious Elizabeth Firestone, granddaughter of the founder, got a chance on the show to introduce one of her own piano concertos...
...Herbert Read once put it, "all the major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art." Items: Marcel Duchamp's Lonely Boy on Train, from the same period as his famed Nude Descending a Staircase; examples of the 1913 Moscow Suprematist movement by Founder Malevitch and Follower Lissitzky; key works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Pollock. So famous is her collection that Venice's international Biennale once gave her a pavilion all to herself. Says Peggy: "It was wonderful, I was listed with Germany and France. I felt like a whole country...
...Founder Baha'u'llah ("the manifestation of God") had appointed his son ("the perfect man") to succeed him, and the son in turn appointed Shoghi Effendi Rabbani ("a man under divine guidance"). When Asian flu carried off 61-year-old Shoghi Effendi in London last month. Bahais from Illinois to Iran speculated on whom he had appointed to carry on as Guardian. At Bahai world headquarters in Haifa last week 26 of the 27 "Hands of the Cause of God," chief stewards of the faith, gathered to find the answer in Shoghi Effendi's will. But where...
...Everything would certainly have been much simpler if Shoghi Effendi had made a will," said a Hand from Paris when the meeting was over. But Bahais have hopes that they will not remain without scriptural interpretation too long. Founder Baha'u'llah decreed that when Bahaism was established in 57 countries, the world's Bahais were to elect a Universal House of Justice with power to make the faith's laws and interpret its teachings. The liberal, world-brotherhood Bahai religion is already rooted in 26 countries and, say its devotees, is spreading fast...
...ironic to note that Van Gogh, who is the spiritual founder of expressionism, appears strongest in retrospect, not for the emotion which once seemed so audacious but for the poetic discipline which controlled that emotion. Nothing highlights the situation more clearly than the early works of Paul Klee. The etchings Head of Menace and Virgin in a Tree are works of quality and excellent draughtsmanship, yet their overbearing concern for the histrionics of their subject matter works against them. Moreover, the later Klees in the exhibit avoid histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated...