Word: lucretia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After repeating this procedure with Holbein's King Henry VIII, Cranach's Lucretia and a Modigliani portrait, Trevor-Roper went on to examine other artists affected by eye diseases. Cézanne's myopia may be the reason, he said, for Cézanne's blur. Monet suffered from cataract, which caused his greens to become more yellow, his blues more purple. Constable may not have realized how brown his trees appeared to normal vision because he was colorblind. "A fuzziness or what art historians would call "breadth,' " he went on, is the weakness...
GIORGIO Tozzi, 35, a tall (6 ft. 1 in.), big-shouldered Chicago-born bass, made his New York debut as Tarquinius in the 1949 Broadway production of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia, but after the short-lived Rape closed, Tozzi wound up a penniless student in Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice...
Died. Adelaide Johnson, 108, famed sculptress and oldtime suffragette, whose statue (carved from a 7½ ton block of marble) of Suffragettes Susan E. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott stands in the U.S. Capitol; in Washington...
...LUCRETIA E. REMINGTON...
...Joellen Snow, who has four assistants to help her with foreign and domestic travel orders. Penny Keefe, whose father was a civil engineer and introduced her to the rigors of travel at an early age, handles the foreign requests. The three girls who work on domestic travel are Lucretia Tate, a onetime Eastern Air Lines representative ; Elaine Goloven, who worked with Eastern before joining the travel department of a British company; and Frances Stubbs, who learned the job starting as a bookkeeper in the Travel Bureau...