Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times' s Washington Correspondent C. P. Trussell, for national-affairs reporting; the Baltimore Sun's Price Day, for foreign reporting; the Boston Herald's John H. Crider and the Washington Post's Herbert Elliston, for editorial writing; the Newark Evening News's Lute Pease, for cartooning; the New York Herald Tribune's Nat Fein, for news photography...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...child. Her famous father used to teach a choral group in lower Manhattan, take Suzanne along to substitute for missing singers. When she went to Germany in 1928 for more study, she visited family friend Physicist Albert Einstein, decided, after hearing Einstein's stepdaughter Margot play the lute, that that...
Snort from Segovia. The lute wasn't easy to learn. Plenty of music has been written for the lute (more, Suzanne believes, than for the harpsichord), but she found it written in a complicated notation called "tablature." The instrument itself was a little complicated too. Famed Guitarist Andrés Segovia visited Suzanne last year, took one look at her lute and snorted, "Too many strings" (her lute has 19, Segovia's guitar only...
...although she admires the music and the men of the Middle Ages ("They had less plumbing, but they were more alive"), Suzanne is not above strumming cowboy songs on the lute for her seven-year-old son Anthony. One of her proudest accolades: recently, when she strummed for Anthony's pals at a party, they paraphrased the other critics...