Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest, costliest, most bitterly fought lawsuits in art history came to an end last week. It had been almost six years since Mark Rothko, whose large canvases filled with luminous rectangles of color had established him as a leader of American abstract expressionism, slit his wrists in his Manhattan studio, leaving his estate to a charitable trust for needy older artists. Under New York State law, Rothko's two children (Kate, now 24, and Christopher, 12) claimed 50% of it. Since 1970, the children and their lawyers alleged, there had been a conspiracy between Rothko's executors-Accountant...
...money be collected? That, said New York Assistant Attorney General Gus Harrow at week's end, "is our headache, not the court's." Both Stamos and Levine are men of modest means, and though Bernard Reis owns a Manhattan town house and an art collection, it is not likely that more than a fraction of the $9 million could be extracted from...
Jews do not talk of saints, but prize the zaddik, the "righteous person." A zaddik, explains Orthodox Rabbi Stephen Riskin of Manhattan's Lincoln Square Synagogue, is "deeply pious, self-effacing, generous with everything he has, burning with a desire to serve God and serve mankind. One serves God by serving man, and man by serving God. The two are intertwined." Besides recognized zaddikim, there are according to Jewish lore a group of hidden zaddikim in every generation, believed to number at least 36, upon whose merit the existence of the world depends. Only the virtue of these...
...Dorothy Day still presides over the Catholic Worker Movement from her tattered but vital hospice for the poor, St. Joseph's House, just off Manhattan's Bowery. Today 47 urban "houses of hospitality," inspired by the one she founded in New York, provide hot meals, and sometimes shelter, for the down-and-out. Some are tied to companion farms in the country in keeping with the back-to-the-land ideas of Co-Founder Peter Maurin...
...AMERICA. Photographs and notes by Ernst Haas. 144 pages. Viking Press. $35. This is a deeply affectionate work: Haas' opening shot of Monument Valley is grand enough to have made John Ford jealous, and his impressionistic multiexposure of nighttime Manhattan should be accompanied by Rhapsody in Blue. More important, the author-photographer knows his territory well enough to make a haunting composition out of a simple line of telephone poles arcing across a bleak valley. In America might be this year's most oblique and intriguing Bicentennial book...