Word: scaffolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the first to approve the restoration was the ancient Expertizer of Renaissance Art, Bernard Berenson, 89, who climbed a scaffold to examine the picture minutely. He reported afterwards: "I felt that I had touched bottom . . . and that I was gazing on the true painting of Leonardo, spoiled, to be sure, by the centuries, but no longer smeared by incompetent hands. [At] a few yards . . . the figures emerged as if from a mist, large and imposing. Space was full of their presence...
...Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...
...American female has long been under attack as a more scaffold for some of the century's greatest engineering achievements. She is composed of pads and bones supposedly, and is not at all what she appears...
...University of Toronto in which undergraduates staged a mock lynching and burned U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in effigy. Shrouded in bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News Editor Paul Bacon resigned, commenting: "I dislike Communism to the extent that...
...Michelangelo to work on a heroic bronze statue of himself and later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time he gave the painter no peace, coming day after day with questions and suggestions. Once the terrible-tempered Florentine threatened to throw the Pope down off the scaffold; once the Pope actually beat the painter with his cane...