Word: nagel
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Last week that historical record was brought up to date with the opening of a show devoted to a collection of 86 original TIME covers, all of them portraits of U.S. newsmakers. They are not only portraits of outstanding Americans, said Charles Nagel, director of the gallery, but they are also "the work of notable artists of our time." Washington officials, lawmakers and diplomats turned out to admire the portraits and toast the artists-many of whom were present along with their subjects. Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk was on hand to renew his friendship with Artist Boris Chaliapin. His portrait...
Mailer said he first heard of Nagel's plan from a Newsweek reporter who was writing an article about...
...Thomas Nagel, assistant professor of Philosophy at Princeton and holder of a Harvard Ph.D., has collected 185 of the 200 alumni signatures necessary to have Mailer on the ballot. Norr already has enough signatures, most of which he collected at his graduation where he was Class Orator...
...Nagel decided to circulate a petition for Mailer last year. "I felt at the time of the Columbia upheaval that there was something drastically wrong with the make-up of the governing boards of universities," he said...
Board-Room Banalities. "Only an American museum," says Director Charles Nagel, "would organize an exhibition of this kind; only Americans would undertake such self-analysis so unashamedly." To find the portraits they needed, Nagel and his assistants fanned out to museums as far away as Basel's Kunstmuseum, where they discovered the only known likeness of Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though...