Word: leonardo
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...months at Harvard College, which callously bounced him in the teens of the century, Bucky Fuller is today a teacher whose mind bestrides the most colossal problems of life and living, and whose proposals can be called provocative, if not provoking. Bucky Fuller's idolaters compare him to Leonardo da Vinci, and even his detractors do not view him as an ordinary man. "Don't underestimate Bucky," warned one of them recently. "He might be a fake, but he's certainly a Force...
...lonely, moody man consumed by the religious revolts of the times, that he was court painter to the archbishops of Mainz and Halle for 17 years, that he married but had no children, that he may have visited Italy in 1509 to see the work of Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian masters, and that he died during the 1528 plague in the town of Halle, in disgrace, possibly because of his Lutheran sympathies...
...short, optimistic months of Venezuela's Action Democrdtica government, bright young (31) Leonardo Ruiz Pineda was a cabinet minister. In the same period, tough Pedro Estrada was a small-time detective, spying for various Caribbean dictators. The overthrow of the legally elected A.D. regime by a military junta in November 1948 changed the course of both men's lives...
...Leonardo Cremonini is only 27 but a major Italian abstractionist. In his strongly sculptural Slaughterhouse, he gets his effects with bone-dry lights and luminous, wet darks that dominate but do not obscure the subject matter...
...clear genius in the advisory group is France's cranky Le Corbusier, long a major architectural prophet. In 1936, he helped Brazil's fiery Oscar Niemeyer design a government building (see cut) which obviously served as an important U.N. source. Niemeyer calls his French collaborator "the Leonardo da Vinci of modern times." Now, in his brand-new Marseille apartment house, which has a richness of color and surface that the U.N. notably lacks, Corbusier points the way to even more impressive slabs...