Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insights. Few of the men who contributed their ideas on the economy are directly quoted, but their consensus is reflected. Those interviewed form an impressive roster of U.S. business: Among bankers, Chase Manhattan President David Rockefeller, Bank of America Vice Chairman Rudolph Peterson, Chicago First National's President Herbert Prochnow, Atlanta First National's Chairman James Robinson...
...case, the changes proposed last week impressed most Britons as a necessary, if overdue, step toward more thoroughgoing reform of "the lethal chamber," as Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith called it in 1911. Displaced M.P. Wedgwood Benn, who has eked out a living as a free-lance writer for the past year, called the committee report "a victory for common sense." When the law is changed, he vowed, "I shall be queuing up with my thermos the moment the doors open...
...touchstones his La Scala debut (". . . the finest since Toscanini, icy told me . . .") and his debut at Bayreuth the Teutonic holy of holies. I was the first American and the young est man ever to appear there," Maazel says, and it was beautiful." Soon he was second only to Herbert von Karajan as Europe's darling. And having triumphed over adolescence in Europe, he was eager to triumph over his painful memories of home. It's great to be a prophet in your own country," he mused, "especially when you're already a prophet overseas...
Back to Nature. The catalogue for the show, by Yale Professor Robert L. Herbert, is an event in itself, the first serious study written about the school since 1925. It positions the painters, most of whom had their studios in the village of Barbizon near Paris, as genuine revolutionaries. For generations, French landscapists had not painted direct from nature except to make sketches. Their finished pictures were done in the studio-usually hoked-up historical scenes or "noble landscapes" that over the years had become more and more stagy and contrived. The elementary idea that an artist could...
...boat and used it as a floating studio. He painted scenes along the coasts of France and Holland with brush strokes that became increasingly liquid, in keeping with his subjects. Critics accused him of hastening too much over solid detail, surrendering too much to vague "impressions." Writes Professor Herbert: "It was in this dispute, which revolved around his diminishing the difference between sketch and finished painting, that the battle for impressionism was first engaged...