Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourist guides. In Spain last year Eliot visited the monastery of Montserrat. After long discussion with the monks, he was admitted to the cloister, a rare privilege. While his wife waited patiently outside, Eliot studied the monastery's art collection, stood entranced before Caravaggio's Saint Jerome. On his return, TIME got permission to reproduce the picture, flew Photographer Eric Schaal from Switzerland to make the copy for this week's Art story...
Soaring and kneeling at the same time, the saint lifts his hands high in wonder toward a storm-swept sky. Behind him. chalky ghosts and children dance, fly, and cry out before a mysterious curtain of green and yellow. That is all. The colors are lurid, the forms only half-shaped...
Died. Frederick Lewisohn, 77, nephew of New York City's famed Philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn (patron saint of Lewisohn Stadium), an organizer of several of the mightiest U.S. mining and smelting companies, e.g., Anaconda Copper, American Smelting & Refining, in later years a big help to the late Robert R. Young in his successful fight to win control of the New York Central Railroad; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo...
...this production is Jack Bittner's Tybalt. He plays Capulet's war-mongering nephew with brio and brimstone. Though physically very short of stature, Bittner is, by the time he is slain, fully one foot taller. Incidentally, all the swordplay in the production is splendid; arranged by Raymond Saint-Jacques, it is a far cry from the usual mamby-pamby skirmishing...
...that polygamous Brigham Young delivered to his numerous daughters after dinner on the night of Nov. 28, 1869: "Retrench, retrench in your dress, in your tables, in your speech. Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful." The Latter-day Saint Retrenchment Association, sparked that evening, eventually became M.I.A., which now has a worldwide membership of 367,860. Directors of activities contribute their services free, and often at considerable personal loss. One director traveled more than 5,000 miles in one year at his own expense to supervise the dance program...