Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the two weeks at Lucerne the parade of participating talent was like an all-star game: Menuhin, Casadesus, Sargent, Francescatti, Ansermet, and Kletski. But above all these towered the stumpy, leonine figure of Edwin Fischer. Known to Americans mainly for his recordings of Bach, the sixty-year-old master branched out into other types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts, despite its plethora of Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Boston's favorite John Singer Sargent, is second only to the Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
...present ground plans are carried through, the graduate dormitory would be backed up on Everett Street, adjacent to the Sargent School, and have its facade filling the now open quadrangle bounded on the east and west by Pierce and Langdell, and on the south by the two physics laboratories Crufts and Jefferson...
Promising "a social event which will interest CRIMSON readers . . . no end!," the committeemaiden said, "Now that Radcliffe girls attend the same classes, I feel that a lot of Harvard men are getting into a rut with these girls. After all, they should realize that Sargent also has its points...
Complaining of the prevalent attitude that Sargent girls are "muscle women," she added, "We're well built, but not muscular. After all, modern physical education develops a lot more than just muscles...