Word: leda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from Auguste Rodin, who said of Maillol's little Leda: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece. . . . What an artist...
Said Admiral Boddam-Whetham: "I won't complain if the next time they give someone else the chance to make this trip." The British Admiralty announced the loss of the destroyer Somali and the minesweeper Leda. Admiral Boddam-Whetham said that about twelve out of 40 merchantmen went down...
...other more pleasing figures. As summer ended, bathing girls, changeless in a changing world, paraded Argentine beaches competing for titles. Amid the crash of falling empires, the porteño rotogravure magazine Aqui Está (Here It Is) climactically chose a Queen, photographically fanfared (see cut) Señorita Leda Zorda as "Miss Summer 1942." To a world at war, however, Grizodubova (see p. 27) seemed more nearly appropriate as 1942's type...
Sculptor Maillol has devoted his entire life to a single subject: the full-blown bodies of naked women. Only three or four times has he sculpted a man; never an animal. When he did Leda and the Swan, he left the swan out and concentrated on Leda. His sculptures seldom tell a story, never illustrate any high-flown saw or slogan. But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world...
Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...