Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gratefully into a seat in Columbine III. Turning to his traveling companion, Murphy began talking quietly, steadily of the historic trip just ending; rushed to the Middle East 29 days before, Murphy had traveled 18,575 miles, visited nine Middle East and European nations, in Lebanon alone met 45 times with government and rebel leaders. When Diplomat Murphy finished talking, his friend on the Columbine leaned toward him. "Bob," said the President of the U.S., returning to Washington after his United Nations speech, "you did a wonderful...
Commissioner Jacobs met with President Dan M. Potter and other members of the Protestant Council but said only that he would pass their objections to his policy along to the Board of Hospitals. Last week the pro-contraception forces prepared for a long and drawn-out battle; the American Jewish Congress and the American Civil Liberties Union called a meeting to set up a citizens' committee and consider preparing a case for testing in the courts. Their position was best summed up by an editorial in the New York Times: "Freedom of religion works both ways; and in this...
...Theodore Rousseau Jr., the Met's curator of European paintings, deciding to hang them there, launched a campaign to persuade collectors to use the museum as their storage room. "I began asking, 'Are you going away this summer?' and got responses. So I took a gallery, cleared it out and put the paintings in." The Met has continued this policy every summer, given special billing to six summer collectors' shows since 1949. This year's, on view this week in eight newly added Met galleries, is twice as large as any of the past...
Hanging the paintings is a persistent problem. Arriving without timetable, the works, ranging from Lucas Cranach the Elder to Picasso, were hard to group by theme or period, but "Paintings from Private Collections" is one of the Met's best ventures. So far, some 70,000 visitors have flocked in to see it. Prize items: ¶ Florentine Mannerist Jacopo Pontormo's rarely exhibited Halberdier (owner: Chauncey Stillman...
...wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading "nothing but plays, great plays, melodrama" until "he was thinking in dialogue." Agnes, the convent-educated daughter of a painter, met him in a Greenwich Village joint called "The Hell Hole." As he saw her home that same evening, he said in a low, sure voice: "I want to spend every night of my life from now on with you. I mean this. Every night of my life...