Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen F. Barker of Virginia and G. E. Lane Owen of Oxford "will help to fill the place in the department vacated when Professor Willard Quine left for a year's leave of absence in California," Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity explained...
...enthusiasm. Established in 1946 by Juilliard School of Music President William Schuman, the quartet has scored triumphs in Europe in recent years, built a reputation which rivals that of the U.S.'s famed Budapest String Quartet. The Juilliard's current membership: Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violinists; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello...
...British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with Sir Isaiah, lectured there in Biblical studies from 1932-39, served from 1942-57 with the British Information Services...
While assuring everyone that he is "nothing like as erudite as my hero," he admits: "I find it increasingly hard to distinguish myself from him these days." Like the detective, Rab Raphael-now the British Treasury's chief press officer-is musically literate; he may read through the scores of Beethoven's Rasaumowsky quartets while traveling or sing a Schubert sonata in the bathtub. Says he: "I always sing the left-hand part of a piano piece or the cello part in a quintet. You can hear the whole thing that...
Caressing Shadows. Edouard Manet, who eventually won the Légion d'honneur ribbon, strove mightily to stay on the good side of the academicians. Though his subject matter was often as old as Giorgione's and Raphael's, the fact that he presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez...