Word: marian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like very much your story on Marian Anderson [TIME, Dec. 30] and the Negro spirituals. . . . These people and their religious philosophies ... their music and poetry have done much to enrich my own life. This has been the source of many of my paintings, and I take this opportunity to thank you for your intelligent and dignified use of my painting Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. I was especially pleased because at times there has been much criticism of the subject matter of these paintings. Your use of this picture contradicts much of this criticism...
...youngest, the least known and perhaps the most versatile.* Lotte Lehmann, still a great trouper at 58, sings German lieder; England's tiny Maggie Teyte, no longer up to her old grand opera roles, has made a new hit singing delicate French songs. The great contralto Marian Anderson balances Schubert and Brahms with Negro spirituals. But Jennie Tourel sings exhaustive programs in seven languages (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese), and three vocal ranges (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto). Says she: "[The audiences] understand that it's not everyday's bread what...
Adams lived in it for 80 years, until he died in bed in 1918. Most of those years, after his marriage in 1872, were bitter ones. One point at last made clear in this volume is that Marian Hooper Adams, his ailing wife, did not die from natural causes; she killed herself, with potassium cyanide. Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design...
...ARTICLE ON MARIAN ANDERSON IS UNQUESTIONABLY THE FINEST WRITING EVER PRODUCED IN TIME...
Grete L. Bibring, associate in Psychiatry; Maxwell Bovarnick '30, assistant professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; Seymour J. Gray, assistant professor of Medicine; Marian C. Putnam, lecturer on Psychiatry; DeWitt Stettin, Jr. '30, assistant professor of Medicine...