Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Light My Way By Jonathan London (Viking; $14.99). The title becomes part of a familiar chant ("Fireflies, fireflies, light my way/ Lead me to the place where the turtles play") when the story is read by an adult with a three-year-old chiming in. Linda Messier's glowing, Henri Rousseau-inspired illustrations help a child recognize the frogs, catfish, wood ducks and otters that inhabit a nighttime pond deep in the woods. Alligators turn up too, but this being a gentle tale, they pretty much keep to themselves...
That reaction was better than some others. Leo Stein, Picasso's wealthy American patron, called the painting a "horrible mess." Henri Matisse, with whom Picasso maintained an edgy rivalry, doubled up in laughter when he saw the work in Picasso's studio. Andre Derain, a painter who was becoming friendly with Picasso, warned an acquaintance: "This can only end in suicide. One day, Picasso will be found hanging behind the Demoiselles...
...DIED. HENRI NANNEN, 82, distinguished founder, editor and publisher of the popular German news magazine Stern; in Hanover, Germany. Nannen and Stern suffered a stunning embarrassment in 1983, when the magazine was duped into publishing a hoax, Hitler's "lost diaries...
...would have said yes. The reputation of Thomas Eakins stood nowhere near its present zenith, and there was something flashy and slightly suspicious about John Singer Sargent, the other main candidate. And Homer was not only big with the public; he exerted a huge influence on younger painters. Robert Henri and the other realists of the Ashcan School embraced him as a role model--the virile eye, always staring at reality over the pencil. "The big strong thing," said Henri, thinking of Homer's seascapes, "can only be the result of big strong seeing...
...orchestral and chamber music with score in hand. I practiced my violin, played sonatas with my classmate Noel Lee '46-'48 and played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. I spent many happy hours slowly working my way through the novels of Anatole France and the philosophical essays of Henri Bergson, without expert guidance or a firm grasp of the subjunctive...