Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleeping dogs of Mr. Selden Rodman's disagreement with my views of art and beauty lie [Nov. 28]; I am flattered by the attention he has paid me. There is someone, however, to whom I believe he has done a grave injustice in his book [The Eye of Man] -an artist not here to defend himself. I speak of the Pole, Jan Styka, close friend of Paderewski and one of the great men of his day, creator of the 200-ft.-wide painting Crucifixion at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. [TIME, April 2, 1951]. If Mr. Rodman...
...constitution reserves considerable power to the semisovereign, ever-competitive divisions. Curtice could probably fire a divisional vice president outright if he wanted to act out a Hollywood version of the tycoon, but he would not. The unwritten law demands that such a grave personal decision be discussed up and down the committees. A divisional vice president with the prestige of Buick's Ivan Wiles spends a huge operating budget as he sees fit, and goes to the top only when he thinks his actions might affect the other divisions, or when he wants new capital...
...hits were the Greek terra cottas (opposite}. Starting with the Tanagra woman and reading clockwise, their price tags read: $517.50, $115, $345 and $230. The makers of the terra cottas were low-caste artisans, often slaves, who turned out art by the ovenful, like cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear-view mirror, the lucid, passionate, sun-swept world...
...large screen behind the speakers' lectern. In a filmed talk, the President of the U.S. welcomed 1,782 delegates and 422 observers to the White House Conference on Education?the most prodigious meeting of its kind ever held. "We are," said the President, "faced today with the grave problem of providing a good education for American youth." How is the job to be done? During the next three days, the delegates were supposed to find some answers...
Aside from the consideration that Communism is a somewhat macabre subject for humor, The Great Sebastians has other grave faults as a comedy. Many of the jokes get such an elaborate buildup that the audience can anticipate them minutes beforehand. Most of the others are inevitable. The whole first act, moreover, has almost no funny lines at all, either good...