Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seldom shown Siegfried Kramarsky collection, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Cachet and Garden of Daubigny, which Hitler ordered sold from German museums because'they were "degenerate." ¶ Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, portrait of a Spanish prince at the age of ten, owned by the Charles S. Paysons. <¶ A whole roomful of first-class Cezannes...
...remembers quite a lot of sittings at Millais' studio," said Wheeler. "She recalls being given chocolates as a reward for sitting still, recollects playing around a fountain in Millais' garden with his children. But she threw up her hands in horror when we suggested she be photographed with Cherry Ripe. She was admirably adamant...
...that point, Mao was talking big about "letting one hundred flowers bloom" -until the blooming flowers of self-criticism set off such disorder in his own garden that he had to call the whole thing off. From then on, Peking worked against Gomulka and Tito by attacking Yugoslav "revisionism" even more savagely than did the Russians themselves. But the Mao-is-tops theorists stuck to their theory, while reversing their field: now it was not Mao the liberal they cheered, but Mao the hard they feared...
Indonesia's neutralist President Sukarno, who only last May was blustering that "all I have to do is wink" to get Communist aid, put on a broad smile and invited U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones to a garden party in the President's countryside palace in Java. Partners in a loose-limbed, international version of the native scarf dance: Jones and Brenda Pavlic, wife of the Yugoslav ambassador, Sukarno and Mrs. James C. Baird Jr., wife of the ICA Director for Indonesia...
...Pouch. As soon as news of the fire reached London, the Royal Ballet's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn sent her own Black Swan costume winging to Ballet Theatre's Prima Ballerina Nora Kaye. Covent Garden set 15 girls apressing a pile of old Sylphides costumes. The British Festival Ballet's Anton Dolin, a Ballet Theatre alumnus, sent whatever odds and ends he could spare. Ballet Theatre's Erik Bruhn phoned fellow Danes in Copenhagen, who rushed to pack Sylphides and Graduation Ball trappings (the vacationing director had to be run to ground for an O.K.). French...