Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There little Caroline-looking like a Sargent painting come to life-appeared in native costume and a kerchief, and kept time to the music with a little tambourine. And back at the villa, serenaders filled the night sky with their songs-Torna a Surriento, 0 sole mio, and Maria, Marl. There was even a lullaby composed just for Caroline, called Tarantella Ravellese. It lost something in translation but nothing in sentiment: A welcome like this we From Ravello must give to you, Returning to America, and happy You remember Italy...
Taking off on a grand tour of North American museums, Milliken assured museum directors that their prizes would be safe and laid his request before them: one masterpiece from each. From Washington's National Gallery of Art, he got John Singleton Copley's vibrant portrait of Epes Sargent. From the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City he got Carravaggio's St.John the Baptist: from Toledo, El Greco's The Annunciation: from the National Gallery of Canada, Chardin's La Gouvernante. North Carolina, Connecticut and California sent handsome loans (see color, opposite and overleaf...
...Virginia's accounts are godly; she recalls that "Oscar Sargent bet me my whole bag of gumdrops that Miss Nelly McDonnell's cat couldn't scratch himself out if we buried him. I bet he could. But if he could, he didn't. Oscar says to me. he says 'What do people do with dead bodies?' " Still, she is a properly brought up little girl, and she ends every chapter with a prayer. The one that closes the chapter about her garden party (at which the bishop drank a triple julep and she danced...
...ROBERT SARGENT SHRIVER...
This week, as Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver sent a massive report to the President on the first year of field operations, echoes of such praise are heard round the world. Even anti-Western Ghana has asked for more Peace Corpsmen. At home, the Corps has won approval from the initially skeptical U.S. Congress, which has agreed to double the first-year budget of $30 million. More than 1,000 members (one-third of them women) are now at work in 15 countries, and by the end of next month, 3,100 others will be in training for jobs...