Word: grecos
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...cantilevered structure built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some $3,000,000 worth of masterworks by El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso-drew a record turnout of 53,031 visitors, more than the museum in its old headquarters could normally expect in a whole year...
...Spain, Valencia's City Councilman Vincente Giner Guillot had nursed a private ambition for more than 20 years: to be the one to discover the missing one of three El Grecos that, legend said, once belonged to Valencia's 350-year-old Real Colegio del Corpus Christi. Councilman Guillot's main problem was that he knew nothing about the missing El Greco, not even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years...
Guillot feverishly ransacked storerooms, stairways, cubbyholes, turned over 400 pictures before he found at the bottom of a pile of some 60 dusty paintings a gloomy landscape that could have been painted by El Greco. Beneath the grime of nearly 100 years of neglect, the picture proved to be the long sought masterpiece. Said one of Madrid's Prado Museum officials: "The brush strokes of El Greco are inimitable, unmistakable. I say it, the director says it, the restorers say it. The picture is El Greco." Valued at $100,000, it will now hang once again in the Real...
Drastically One-Sided. One reason why the Christian idea of education has been so rarely realized, said William Pollard, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and an ordained Episcopal priest, is that the modern Western world has focused on its Greco-Roman heritage to the almost total exclusion of the Judaeo-Christian. A student may study history from the ancient world to the present, "but concerning our Judaeo-Christian stem, he will know nothing of any real, historic, cultural root. [He] will be aware of it only through the fall of Rome and the seamy side...
Paris Night Life (Columbia LP). A frantic musical tour steamy with atmosphere. It includes such international headliners as Jacqueline François and Juliette Greco, such local music-hall and cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...