Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...
Under De Gasperi's private urgings and Adenauer's public alarms, Georges Bidault, the diplomat with the Mona Lisa smile, announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...
...size of the crowds, the public library in Hutchinson, Kans. might have had the Mona Lisa on exhibit last week. "They want to keep looking," said the librarian happily. "We have to shoo them out." The big attraction at the library's annual all-Kansas art show: one of the first U.S. exhibits of an avid Sunday painter and onetime Kansas boy. His name: Dwight D. Eisenhower. On opening day, 1,500 people flooded the library's tiny gallery; by week's end, 3,500 more had come to see how Ike paints...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Starring Donald O'Connor, with Broderick Crawford, Lisa Kirk...
...supremely unconcerned. "Plagiarism?" he snorted. "Just my own original method of using images from my dreams and from some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain one of the greatest living painters...