Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
They were part-time party workers and armchair politicians--college professors, businessmen, young lawyers, and the labor rank-and-file. They met last week in a Fresno hotel to endorse some candidates for elective office. The California Democratic Council proved that grass roots are not always green...
Miss Kelley owns Mount Auburn 47 with her college classmate, Joyce Kalina. They met their senior year at Brandeis, where Joyce studied comparative literature and Paula medieval history. After graduation last year, Joyce went to New York to study acting, and Paula remained to work in Cambridge. Last October, Joyce returned to Cambridge. "Things were pretty dull," Paula related. "One evening we were sitting around, trying to think of something different to do. The idea of starting a coffee house was first a joke, but the next thing we knew we were in the business. I guess you could...
Best-Kept Secret. How such a world-famed masterpiece arrived at the Met is so far one of the art world's best-kept secrets. The Met has had the triptych for more than a year, hints that it has not been in Belgium since World War II, gives no hint as to the identity of the seller. Several months ago (long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been...
Painting of Mystery. The Merode triptych is one of the great mystery paintings. The painter, date and donor are all matters of conjecture, though the Met's Curator Theodore Rousseau Jr. makes a good case for attributing it to Robert Campin and dating it about 1420. In this century it has been exhibited only twice-in Bruges in 1912 and in Paris in 1923. Since then it has been kept out of sight...