Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This year a new record for Goya was set with the sale of his hapless Duke of Wellington, which thereupon went to London's National Gallery and was almost immediately stolen. The Montreal collector, L. V. Randall, sold his master drawings for $186,400. Among them was a saint by Hugo van der Goes that brought an astonishing $84,000, making it the most expensive drawing of all time. Last year Sotheby's sales spiraled to a dizzy $28,834,100 (as compared with Parke-Bernet...
...fence in a conflict between right and wrong, he sighed wearily. "There are far too many greys in this world," he said. "A politician may aim at the right-he may even perceive the right-but he must convey that perception to others to function. A saint need not-therefore he is often stoned to death...
...later work returns to human form and emotion, most notably in a series of depictions of Our Lady of Montserrat, Catalonia's patron saint. The original Montserrat is a small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished...
...Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas feels that Joseph should be honored as "Jesus' father in every way except physical generation...
...here "sophomore slump," which is likely to make girls oversleep, overeat and sometimes go overboard. Before, during and after sophomore slump, girls struggle with the problem of men. They desperately want men; colleges tend to get rated by their nearness to the supply. Says a Saint Mary's girl: "Notre Dame is ten minutes by bike, 15 minutes at a dead run, and 22 if you just walk." University of Texas coeds are described as "bluntly aggressive with men." A sociology professor reports that "15 or 20 years ago a college girl would invariably reply, 'Career...