Word: rosenberger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among the most productive in the U.S.-probably because they still have a tradition to work in, or to flout, if they so choose. In what might be called situation esthetics, new styles are eagerly seized even before they are fully formed, and almost automatically accepted; as Critic Harold Rosenberg noted in The Tradition of the New: "An appetite for a new look is now a professional requirement, as in Russia to be accredited as a revolutionist is to qualify for privileges...
William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...
Sophomore Harry Jergesen, more impressive each time he fences, took three bouts in epee. In the first bout, he picked apart Penn's Mark Rosenberg with five touches in less than a minute. Harvard's Steve Shea followed with a slim 5-4 decision over Jay Miller, but Ron McMahan's 5-2 pasting of Brian Keidan gave Penn a 5-4 lead at the end of the first round...
...display at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery is its new acquisition, a rare Rubens (above), which Expert Jakob Rosenberg, senior research fellow at the National Gallery, calls "practically the only case where the artist himself has declared this picture to be completely by his own hand...
...Daniel in the Lions' Den is an early Rubens, dating near 1610. It was a popular Biblical subject for Flemish artists. But other representations were pallid compared to Rubens', who, according to Rosenberg, "gets to the heart of it, the drama and significance of the story." Other artists' lions were "only little toys, poodles," by comparison. In keeping with the Renaissance adoration of man, Daniel is more hero than saint...