Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relations. Neither side produced a real hero, but both sides produced plenty of villains. The strikers turned ugly, on one occasion beat seven injured Pinkerton men to death. Andrew Carnegie, a public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy was to break the strongest union in Sam Gompers' infant American Federation of Labor. He succeeded. Not until 1935, with the formation of the C.I.O., did the nation...
...Frick showed no interest in justice or the strikers' proposals. He simply put in a call to the Piftkerton Agency, already notorious for its ability to muster indefinite numbers of strikebreaking mercenaries who were delighted to do battle for $5 a day. Frick swore to hold fast, "if it takes all summer and all winter, and all next summer and the next winter. I will never recognize the union, never, never...
Warhol soup cans vie for the ready money with old masters. Alfalfa fortunes, born yesterday, successfully bid for art treasures against landed wealth. Rich plumbers dispossess the gentry on art-museum boards. Such propositions tickle Baird, an art insider, who deserted a gilt-framed career (New York's Frick Collection, Washington's National Gallery of Art) in favor of novel writing. Baird wields a deft brush to capture art's comic possibilities, but he wastes his brush strokes on a canvas of postage-stamp size...
...cone in his hand, Brown is an artist's son and a Bucknell University scholarship student (he was a four-letter man in high school) who got an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, then perfected his taste with five years as a research scholar at Manhattan's Frick Collection. There, he recalls, "I could feel myself growing the way a man says he can hear the corn growing in an Iowa field." When older colleagues kept warning him that Los Angeles was a lost cause culturally, he grew more interested in the challenge. He came to Los Angeles...
...rococo age. Born in 1732, he studied under François Boucher. He was befriended by the American minister in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and by Madame du Barry, who commissioned him to do the series called the Progress of Love that is now in Manhattan's Frick Collection. One of his best-known works shows a girl on a swing, her hems heavenward, being pushed while her lover looks...