Word: rodin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whistler Regrets. Even time stood still for father Sitwell. In the late '20s he suggested throwing an "Artists' Party," was vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn...
Carl Milles accepted Rodin's offer, and he traveled a long way in the master's steps. In time, his own statues were bursting out of bushes, rising from fountains, standing as monuments in city parks and squares all over Europe. Academies honored him; King Gustav V of Sweden called him Carl...
...assistant to a coffin maker. But he still plugged away at his sculpture. One day an old man with a flowing beard called on him to congratulate him on a statue he had seen. "I have come to offer my assistance. My name," the old man added, "is Rodin...
...neurotic love for his cousin Emmanuele. Novelist-Critic Charles Huysmans promptly labeled it "a product of hideous vulgarities." Few people read it and fewer still bought it; but it admitted Gide to Paris' literary set. It brought him the acquaintance of Maeterlinck, D'Annunzio, Whistler, Gauguin, Rodin and Mallarme...
...battered streets, music lovers stopped to wring the hand of 71-year-old Conductor Bruno Walter. He had come back to preside over a ceremony as symbolic as his own return: the restoration to the Vienna State Opera of a Rodin bust of another Viennese hero-Gustav Mahler...