Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discoveries like this are recurrent mysteries in the art world. Often enough they end in disappointment. What made Carlo Noya's picture sensational is that, although there are many Leonardo drawings, experts concede only 13 (some only four) da Vinci paintings to exist. The British Museum has one of the best of numerous pen studies for a Madonna with the Cat. In Britain, too, is the one man whom Italian scholars need to consult before pronouncing their find authentic, Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, director of the National Gallery since...
...often suggestive, as when he says that Leonardo's restless versatility, which in later life kept him busy experimenting with grandiose and unpractical engineering projects when he should have been painting, was "a disease of the will similar to that which ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque swirl of uncountable figures. But Leonardo's passion for scientific precision and classical finish, in Kenneth Clark...
...Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week, the greatest mass evacuation in Britain's history went on. Some children were grave-faced. Some, like their mothers who had come along to say goodby, wept. But most were elated by their adventure. They stamped and sang and danced the Lambeth Walk as they waited for their trains. It was almost as good as being at the front. This was War and they were...
...proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music...
...distribution all along the line from primary producer to consumer would result in an average saving of no more than three cents out of every dollar paid by consumers for finished goods." The research done, ten economic bigwigs were asked to confer, formulate a "program of action." They nibbled like scared mice at the big cheese of distribution, recommended: strict accuracy in labeling and advertising, consumer education, commodity research, careful cost analysis of distribution industries. To meet increasingly costly conveniences offered by retailers (credit, free delivery, Smith girls behind the counter, swank salesrooms, return privileges), they suggested "differential pricing...