Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adult life, Isabel Bishop, 58, has been obsessed with the idea of movement, but she herself changes outwardly hardly at all. Each morning, as she has for the last 26 years, she leaves her Riverdale, N.Y. home with her husband, Neurologist Harold G. Wolff, and boards a train for Manhattan. At Grand Central, the doctor and the artist part, he to go north by subway to his office, she to go south to her studio on Union Square. There Isabel Bishop calmly takes command of a world she has made...
...slender, birdlike woman with an enthusiasm that never runs down, Isabel Bishop was 16 when she started training for a career at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. At the time, she loathed the drudgery of "drawing, drawing, drawing," but she learned to be grateful for it. In 1934 she leased her present studio, and Union Square became her subject. She sketched the lounging bums ("America's only 'leisure class' "), drew the men and women hurrying past a drugstore, or bending over a fountain to get a quick drink, or just eating a hotdog...
...human side of some very dissimilar papas was laid bare in a book titled The Father: Letters to Sons and Daughters, edited by Evan Jones and published last week (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $3.95)In 1950, not long after his young daughter Isabel had gone to Paris and succumbed to "the romantic alchemy" of a much older, married man, Humorist Ogden Nash wrote a prescription: "Keep on having your gay time, but just keep yourself in hand, and remember that generally speaking it's better to call older men Mister." In 1930, India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was serving...
...ISABEL PARRA Santurce...