Word: napkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns for the wretched minx. Embittered and ruined, he became porter...
Grapefruit & Grace. Architect Saarinen sleeps, eats and dreams architecture, reduces just about every experience in life to architectural terms, reaches for the nearest napkin or note pad to graph everything from adolescent rates of learning to the qualities that make up a beautiful woman. Last week, as his wife watched with fascination, he casually turned over his breakfast grapefruit, began carving out elliptical parabolic arches which he then carried off to the office to see if they might do as an idea for the office model of T.W.A.'s new terminal at Idlewild...
...doorknob he had clasped, hating the napkin...
...expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio, serviette, toilet-paper, wealthy and lounges for the U words sick, lookingglass, writing paper, wireless, table-napkin, lavatory-paper, rich and halls. The U reply...
...public's baffled bewilderment indicates that something important is missing in most of today's art. Said former Louvre Curator René Huyghe: "Art today aims to shock. In effect the artist spits on the canvas, delivers a punch in the eye. I prefer fruit on a napkin." Italy's leading Abstract Painter Afro in part agreed: "There is too much concern with surface effects, an attempt to make them appear 'modern,' even if this means contempt for color. What is missing is a maturing process, a depth of spirituality." For Boston Museum of Fine...