Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Cuba's cultural commissars pondered converting Ernest Hemingway's 13-acre Finca Vigia into a museum, his widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, was more concerned about his literary monument. Spending what may be her last weeks at their longtime Cuban home, Mrs. Hemingway, as per her husband's request, destroyed personal papers, culled his "hundreds of thousands of typewritten pages" for marginal notes like "burn this" or "this is pretty good" as a guide to what to publish and what to let perish. Among the manuscripts that Mary Hemingway may or may not ever release: The Dangerous...
...architect of her own literary monument, Katherine Anne Porter is the most sparing of designers. The graceful, towering spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944). Last week at 71, still pretty, witty and as talkative as ever ("It's always been my sin"), Katherine Anne Porter announced that she had placed the massive capstone of her distinguished career: a 160,000-word novel, her first, scheduled for spring publication by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Sighed Author...
...rest of France was not so enthusiastic. He was rejected as a candidate to do a monument to Novelist Emile Zola. Aix-en-Provence commissioned a monument to his beloved Cézanne, then refused to accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...
...doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
...Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. As for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is a national monument made of sugar, and should appeal to anyone who likes monuments, sugar or Mary Martin...