Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Wordsworth and the Loss of Joy," by Donald T. Wesling '60, took second prize, and Jonathan F. Beecher '58 placed third with his essay, "Saint-Simon's Second Circumspection: His Legacy to 1848." The awards are $600, $400, and $150, respectively...
...Many devout Turks attributed his escape to divine intervention, and since then the Premier's popularity has taken on a quasi-religious quality. Upon his return to Turkey, camels and sheep were sacrificially slaughtered in his presence; on at least one occasion admirers hailed him as "Evliya [Saint] Menderes...
...Which Mont Saint-Victoire?" Kahnweiller wanted to know. Cezanne painted the theme many times...
...moment, a collector who has chosen recently and enigmatically to become anonymous, has presented Fogg with the loan of several Cezannes, including one of the late Mont Saint-Victoires. Coincidentally, the museum is host to a number of later French canvasses featuring Picasso, also anonymously offered. The resultant exhibition, then, is a fortuitous affair and a particularly happy one. It makes for many good paintings and a few tangential observations...
This particular version of Mont Saint-Victoire just approaches being over-labored, a flaw to which Cezanne was susceptible. Nevertheless, he stopped in the nick of time. A living spontaneity illuminates this painting. For that matter, two small canvases, a portrait of the artist's son, and a bather, are fresher still and the more marvelous...