Word: henry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Henri, whose goal was to catch ''the living instant" in his boldly brushed portraits, the style of the Ashcan School painters varied from John Sloan's somber slices-of-life, the stark realism of Everett Shinn and George Luks and the darkling canvases of William (Slackens to the airy landscapes of Ernest Lawson and mystical pastorals of Arthur B. Davies. Until the 1908 show, recalled Everett Shinn many years later, "art was only an adjunct of the plush and cut glass...
Other women who hold the rank of full professor in the University and are active faculty members are Sirapie Der Nersessian, Henri Focillon Professor of Byzantine Art and Archeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington; Cora Du Bois, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology; and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy...
Come Dance with Me (Francis Cosne; Kingsley) concerns a dentist (the late Henri Vidal) who, during an important poker game, experiences a moment of tooth. Brigitte Bardot appears, leading her sore-jawed father. It is an emergency. Vidal puts on his white jacket, jams his mirror into the sufferer's mouth, then stares entranced at the filling-Brigitte's, naturally. Before long the toothache is even worse, but he, the handsome dog, and she, the pretty thing, are in love...
Nietzsche's superman was one of his first ideals; Henri Bergson's matter-mastering Life Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth...
...suburban Philadelphia, directly in the path of a huge trailer truck. The driver of the car-Albert Coombs Barnes, multimillionaire, eccentric and owner of one of the world's greatest collections of modern art-died instantly. When the news of Barnes's violent end reached him, Henri Marceau, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, had an awed comment: "How natural." Long before his death, Albert Barnes's fabulous collection of French and American modern art, his quarrels and correspondence (frequently unprintable), his dung-heap humor and mercurial temper had made him a legend...