Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flight from Chicago. Concern for the art came second, but it was more widespread. In Chicago, Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who rounded up the Seurat show, including Chicago's most valuable painting, Seurat's La Grande Jatte, appraised at more than $1,000,000, got news of the fire by telephone 50 minutes after it started. Another 50 minutes later Rich was on a plane to New York, and four hours later he was standing before La Grande Jatte in the adjacent Whitney Museum. With an audible sigh of relief, he announced...
...current ancient mystery is the fabulous Lydian civilization, whose capital city in Sardis, Turkey, will be excavated during the next three summers. He returned on April 14th from a preliminary survey of the area and will leave again late in May to begin digging. "Sardis is an extremely rich place," says Professor Hanfmann, his "r's" revealing a slight German accent. "There are several big ruins above ground from the Hellenistic and the Roman period, but the palace of Croesus and the Temple of Zeus are buried. We will probably take on some of these big buildings, although most...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra. Most of the members of these groups have a technical competence on the professional level, and musical capacities far above many professionals, enabling them to respond fully to Mlle. Boulanger's wishes. The orchestra was unusually rich and warm in Lili Boulanger's Vieille Priere Bouddhique, and the chorus sang with beautiful tone as always...
...strike attempt will be harder to mount than the foiled try-particularly bucking the prosperity of Cuba's current $2 billion-a-year national income. And Castro, never well armed, is suffering so badly from shortage of guns and ammunition that last week he denounced his principal backer, rich ex-President Carlos Prio, for "living in luxury in Miami" while the rebels eat roots and wait in vain for arms...
...progressive educationists have taken some harsh criticism in recent months, but not all of them are listening in the storm cellar. A few are talking back-indignantly and in the same old rich, deep-purpled educationese...