Word: jacob
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...significance this year for the worshipers at Llandaff Cathedral in Wales. Gathered to witness the hallowing of the cathedral's restored nave, which was almost completely destroyed in a wartime bombing, they also watched the dedication of a striking new statue commissioned for the occasion. The sculptor: Sir Jacob Epstein, the U.S.-born artist who moved to Britain and became one of the world's greatest living artists. See ART, Of Hope and Peace...
...bristles, but behind his façade of respectability, the U.S. charged, he served the Kremlin as a spymaster in a ring that operated in the U.S. and Europe for more than a decade. Among the spies working under him in the U.S., charged Justice, was an immigrant named Jacob Albam, who came from Soble's home town of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania. Arrested in Manhattan the same morning the FBI closed in on the Sobles, Albam, 64, was still clinging to his not-guilty plea last week, but he, too, seemed on the verge of deciding to change his mind...
...Thomas, dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, was categorical. Restoration of the cathedral, which had been virtually destroyed in 1941 by German bombers, was being planned, and the question of a statue of Christ for the nave had been raised. "Only one man can do it," said the dean. "Jacob Epstein...
...Jacob had some decided ideas on the subject. "Usually," he said, "Christ in majesty is shown with a crown and scepter. I rejected that. I rejected the conventional symbols, the stigmata, the crown of thorns. I told them I would not use them. I wanted to make him divine, but human." The cathedral authorities agreed...
...took Sculptor Epstein a full year to mold the statue in clay, another year for it to be cast in aluminum. Then, for 18 months, while restoration of the nave proceeded, the figure remained in a crate as Sir Jacob, now 76, fretted that he might never live to see it unveiled. Last week he put aside his plaster-spattered corduroy work clothes, put on a well-worn morning suit and black Homburg and left with his wife for the pre-Easter hallowing of the restored nave and the dedication of his Christ in Majesty...