Word: frugalities
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...painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet, 27, France's most popular painter (TIME, March 21), whose portraits depict the leanest and hungriest figures since Picasso's Frugal Repast...
...multilingual employees, deals with New York City over U.N. parking privileges, approves the monthly bills for 100 tons of paper. 200,000 outgoing phone calls, and 335 cleaners who sweep 2,000,000 sq. ft. of flooring and seven miles of carpets. Hammarskjold runs his House with all the frugal efficiency of a well-brought-up Swedish housewife. He lopped $1,000,000 a year off the Secretariat's budget, last week ordered U.N. employees assigned to the San Francisco meeting to travel by air coach (estimated saving...
...they live better than I do!"* "Good! Good!" Glancing at L'Oeil's pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain for the name of his Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving, Le Repas Frugal, he said: "I didn't know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father...
...Eliot announced in 1877 that, "The want of space in Gore Hall is a more and more oppressing evil," the building got its first renovation and a new librarian, Mr. Justin Winsor, as well. He revolutionized the library by installing stacks, the first in America, and starting a more frugal and practical policy of book purchasing...
...From frugal beginnings in 1855 as a state-chartered farmers' college, Pennsylvania State University has grown into the 6th largest (15,400 students) of the nation's 69 land-grant* colleges-with research achievements to match, e.g., in diesel engineering, low temperature studies, corn hybridization. Last week, with scarcely a backward look or a sigh of nostalgia, Penn State briskly marked its 100th year of growth with a day-long celebration...