Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painted with normal eyes, a figure can wander off the canvas," John D. Graham once observed. To understand that remark, it is necessary to know something about Graham. Born Ivan Dabrowsky in Russia, he was a little-known painter who became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention...
...Loner. Some have eyes that are crossed. Some are walleyed. Some figures have one eye socket empty, and not a few come with a third eye in the middle of their foreheads, or still other eyes in shoulders or thighs. Nor are the eyes all that is awry in Graham's portraits. Often as not, they are littered with cabalistic signs and symbols from alchemy or numerology. In one self-portrait titled Apotheosis, Graham bears on his shoulders the sun and the moon, alchemists' symbols for the soul and the spirit. In addition, he has added horns...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
...several pints a day, more than the patient's system can stand if the treatment has to be repeated often-as it usually does. And all transfusions carry the risk of hepatitis infection or severe allergic reactions. It was not until 1965 that a Stanford University physiologist, Judith Graham Pool, developed a technique of freezing, thawing and centrifuging fresh plasma to concentrate the AHF. (The rest of the plasma could still be broken down into a dozen other life-saving fractions...
Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...