Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Withdrawing to a mansion in Arezzo with his pianist wife, he established a renowned year-round school for some 40 hand-picked students, including Argentina's Martha Argerich, who this year won Poland's prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition (TIME, March 26). More like a Renaissance patron than a schoolmaster, Michelangeli also instructed his students in the selection of fine wines and gourmet foods ("I cannot teach if I cannot also teach the art of living and cooking...
...Washington last week, Simon was the guest of honor at a pre-unveiling luncheon (filet of sole espagnole) given by National Gallery Director John Walker and attended by such notables as Navy Secretary Paul Nitze, Dutch Ambassador Carl Schurmann, Pittsburgh Art Patron Paul Mellon and William Walton, chairman of the Federal Government's Commission of Fine Arts. Then Titus was ceremoniously brought from the gallery's basement, and while flashbulbs popped and TV cameras whirred, hung before red velvet in its place of honor. Yet, for all the trouble and cost he had incurred to acquire Titus, the lean, craggy...
Died. Childs Frick, 81, Manhattan art patron, whose coke-and coal-rich father Henry Clay Frick built a $5,000,000 mansion on Fifth Avenue ("I'll make Carnegie's house look like a miner's shack!"), stoked it with $50 million worth of art, and left it to the public as the Frick Collection, which his son supervised as trustee since 1921; of a heart attack; in Roslyn...
...than Rembrandt, ending up, according to legend, over a bedstead in a Dutch farmhouse. There, in the early 1800s, a traveling British art restorer named George Barker saw and picked it up for one shilling, which also included the price of bed and breakfast. Barker presented it to his patron, Lord Spencer. In 1915 it passed into the hands of Sir Herbert Cook for $168,000. Last week it was up for auction in London's Christie's auction house, identified simply as Item...
...original patron of the civil rights movement, Thomas speaks with a special sophistication and sensitivity about the plight of the American Negro. He pleads that "whites should not be Olympian" in assigning value to various civil rights organizations, and he has divided his contributions among almost all major existing groups. He is confident about the nation's progress in race relations, which has inclined him to favor less extreme actions; he was opposed, for example, to the recent situation in the White House. Thomas states that "there is no commandment 'thou shalt demonstrate,'" and he counsels against universal adoption...