Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidents in general have shown one serious weakness: they dislike extended portrait sittings. And by the same token artists are apt to strike Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter!" The President's bone-chilling rejoinder: "Mr. Stuart need never feel the need...
...Terrible Twins. Early this month the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,464,773) bannered a new charge against der Alte: DR A. JOINS A-BOMB CLUB IN SECRET. Burden of this "scoop" by Herald Air Correspondent Gilbert Carter was that West German money and scientists were helping to build France's Abomb. Outraged, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss denounced Carter's story as a phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept...
...fair in Moscow (TIME, July 13), hastily dropped its ban on U.S. art prior to 1918, gathered up 25 to 30 famed American canvases painted before the 20th century, rushed them off to Russia to supplement the moderns in the big show. Among the late starters: Gilbert Stuart (one of his portraits of Washington), George P. A. Healy (his study of a beardless Lincoln), Copley, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, Remington, Mary Cassatt...
...Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other places. The last town may surprise you (it certainly did this interviewer), but not so once Dr. Prakash has explained the rather unique aspect of Indian museums. India's museums are generally of the multi-purpose type: mixtures of, say, The Gilbert Hall of Science, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Non-Representational Art, and the Museum of Natural History--to name a few of the typically specialized museums particular to America. To support these institutions, the Indian government settles $30,000,000 of its rather shaky budget upon them. The museums are also supported...
Rabb and the players are fortunate to have the absolutely stunning, three-story set, complete with lanterns and garden swing, designed by William D. Roberts. And it takes Gilbert Hemsley's lighting very well, abetted in one night scene by four real flambeaux...