Word: sarita
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...face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex of the painted fan behind the girl's head-essentially different from that of Degas, Cassatt's mentor? Stylishness does not go by gender; perhaps it never did. Cecilia Beaux's Sita and Sarita (1921) looks "feminine" when you know that it is the work of a once very popular American female portraitist, a gifted conservative with a relaxed, unemphatic and slightly languid style-but not until then. And with more abstract art, division by gender becomes meaningless. What sex is Alice Trumbull Mason...
...display of flags") intrigued a 1955 New Yorker writer as well; he noticed that the names of our 62 researchers composed the largest block in the list and surmised that the presence in the TIME offices of all those women - with names like Harriet Ben Ezra, Quinera Sarita King and Yi Ying Sung - must have been "pulse-quickening...
Vatican Intervention. Sarita's death created a legal battle that eventually forced the Vatican to intervene. Bishop Garriga sued to regain his old position as a member of the foundation. Sarita's cousin also sued for reinstatement, and got an injunction preventing Brother Leo, Grace and associates from touching any of the estate's funds. In addition, he demanded an accounting of $1,000,000 that Brother Leo had withdrawn from Texas banks, apparently to finance the South American monasteries...
...complicate matters still more, 43 of Sarita's relatives sued to set aside the entire will, charging that Brother Leo had exercised a Svengali-like influence over a sick old woman of unsound mind. Eventually, Rome's Consistorial Congregation sent Archbishop John Krol of Philadelphia down to Texas to find out what was going...
Separate Foundations. Last week the principal parties to the dispute seemed to be on the verge of an out-of-court settlement that would in effect create two separate foundations. About 80% of the estate, including Sarita's interest in La Parra and half the future oil royalties, would be administered by Bishop Garriga, the rest by the Eastern Catholics. By the time they settle, the claimants will have more money than they bargained for: since Sarita's death, oil royalties have increased the value of the estate by $2,000,000. As for Brother Leo, he presumably...