Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo station Nasser was met by a screaming crowd of 200,000 carrying banners and pictures of Nasser. As he rode from the station to his office, chanting, dancing throngs showered him with flowers, hailed him as the "Hero of Nationalization, Hero of Bandung, Hero of Brioni, the first Egyptian to rule Egypt!" Standing at last before his office window-it had taken his Cadillac an hour and a half to make what is usually a seven-minute trip-Nasser shouted his defiant answer: "The noise that we expected arose in London and Paris without any justification except imperialist reasons...
...modern times. "In a sense, it has already started," said Billy Graham to a group of friends last week. "Church groups all over the world have begun praying for New York to turn to Christ. We're going to bring ministers from abroad, too, men we've met in our travels, to help with the crusade. We've announced it will last seven weeks-from May 15 to June 30-but as a matter of fact, we have an option on Madison Square Garden for five months running, to be on the safe side...
...Sculptor-Welder Richard Lippold's Variation Within a Sphere, No. 10; The Sun. For the Met, which specially commissioned The Sun, Lippold outdid himself, labored three years putting together, with 14,000 hand-welded joints, almost two miles of 22-carat gold-filled wire. Hung by stainless steel wires in one of the Met's Oriental-rug rooms, The Sun measures 22 ft. long, 11 ft. high and 5½ ft. deep...
...less than $1,000, Rorimer carted the bust off to the U.S. In the Met's workroom, Director Rorimer and his staff carefully cleaned off the layers of paint, found underneath the gleaming silver features of an unknown bishop whose miter was handsomely jeweled (see opposite). The enameled coats of arms and Latin inscriptions on the bust further identified the piece as a work commissioned by the great Italian Humanist Poggio Bracciolini and his wife Vaggia. A search of the records brought out the fact that about 1438 Poggio had indeed given to the Church of Santa Maria...
...Rorimer hopes to identify the sculptor who made the bust (now on show at the Cloisters, the Met's outpost on the Hudson River). He wonders if it might be the work of famed Renaissance Sculptor Donatello, known to have been one of Poggio's close friends. But for the moment, he says, "we must remain content to have brought back from oblivion a masterpiece of the 15th century...