Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent addition to the collection of sculpture at the Fogg Art Museum is a statue of the Virgin and child--the gift of J.V. Demotte--which has been placed in the sculpture gallery on the ground floor. The statue is a work of the French School of the sixteenth century, dating probably between...
Whitehead once defined the ideal university professor as "an ignorant man thinking." He possessed the great teacher's greatest gift: nobody ever asked him a foolish question. His philosophy students at Harvard gladly took the calculated risk that Professor Whitehead had demanded-honors or a flunk; no "gentleman...
...even a gleam in Architect L'Enfant's eye. This week Washington's National Gallery proudly exhibited "its first full-length portrait from Van Dyck's English period." The portrait, a sparkling evocation of the foppish Duc de Guise, was a New Year's gift from New York Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. That made the 1,019th painting the National Gallery has been given since it opened its doors in 1941 (it has only found it necessary to buy one painting in that time). It also clearly established the National Gallery's Van Dyck...
Turn-In. When Robert Kirk, Ltd. offered to take in Christmas gift ties, give $1 credit for each toward a new one, San Franciscans in two days turned in 250 Yuletide mistakes. Put on sale, they were snatched right...
...what did Wolfe mean by his affirmation that "we shall be found?" Wolfe was himself lost; he had only the foggiest notions about modern science and modern thought and throughout his life he indulged in cracker-barrel sneering at intellectuals. He was a confused boy with a great gift for language, whose significance as a writer was, as critic Alfred Kazin put it, "that he expanded his boyhood into a lifetime...