Word: marce
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn, "on a street. . . that can only be described as drab," he survived the iron classical discipline of his first teachers, then, at 20, took off for Paris and the "encouraging" teaching of Nadia Boulanger (TIME, March 31, 1947). Other U.S. composers-Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitz-stein-were soon following the same Paris path...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
...MARC T. GREENE...
...called back to Washington to straighten out Navy air administration -particularly in the matter of getting combat-equipped planes from the factories to the fighting areas. When that had been satisfactorily attended to, he went to sea again, this time commanding Carrier Group 58.4-a component of wizened, brilliant Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58. His group joined the first carrier strikes- after Doolittle-on the Japanese home islands...
...Marc Chagall, a wanderer at 60 as he has always been, recently moved to the south of France and resolved to take up ceramics. But he continues to paint lush, lyrical fireworks of color. Referring to the image of the floating man that continually recurs in his paintings, Chagall says: "The man, in the air used to be partially me. Now it's entirely...