Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of 121 Georgians who were killed when a plane chartered by the Atlanta Art Association crashed at Orly Airport near Paris last June. Whistler's Mother's traveling companion was The Penitent St. Mary Magdalen, by the 17th century French painter Georges de La Tour, also lent to Atlanta by the Louvre. The arrival of the paintings in Atlanta was one of the biggest events since the opening of Gone With the Wind clogged Peachtree Street with hoopskirts and Hollywood types. Says Director Wilhelmus Bryan: ''Having these paintings here means...
...prophets' claim to be surrogates for God. In their writings, they expressed both their own anger and divine wrath as well; their mission was to make known this "divine pathos"-God's concern for the world-to men. "Prophecy," Heschel writes, "is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor. God is raging in the prophet's words." Their distinction "was to sense the human situation as a divine emergency...
...nation's capital is the city of the hard nose, the tough work and the political thumb in the eye. But last week it became, for a few exalted hours, something much different. This was the occasion of the unveiling of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, lent by France to the U.S. for a few precious weeks.* It required something special-and that was what...
Submerge Those Differences. To this spirit, President Kennedy lent great support on two occasions. First, he received Artime and other officers in Palm Beach...
...children," and he once reported that "I look at my pictures every night before I go to bed." He was generous to Washington's National Gallery of Art, of which he became president in 1955, but he would watch carefully to see how a painting that he had lent was hung before he would make it a permanent gift. As the years advanced, one of the big questions for all major U.S. museums was: Where would the Chester Dale Collection finally...