Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designs were the first stage settings by the great English sculptor, Henry Moore, 68, and were the sensation of the opening week of the tenth annual Festival of Two Worlds. When the festival director, Gian Carlo Menotti, first suggested the idea, Moore was reluctant. After all, for years he had declined Sir Laurence Olivier's entreaties to design a production of King Lear for Britain's National Theater. But then Moore agreed to let Italian Designer Fiorella Mariani adapt settings from his existing works. When he saw the results, he was so pleased that he immediately...
Died. John Big Tree, 90, a chief of the Seneca Indian tribe, whose craggy profile became familiar to every American when Sculptor James Earle Fraser used it as a model for the "heads" side of the 1913 Buffalo nickel; after a brief illness; near Syracuse...
...just warned us: "Man in the electronic age is not a votary of the arts--he has more serious business. He sees himself, whatever his economic system, as a social and scientific animal, the great unraveler of the universe, its potential master, and his tool is not the sculptor's chisel any longer or the brush that paints an image of himself--his tool is technological information.... Man cannot exist as man without an image of himself to question all he knows...
BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, looks at the light side of a dark evening in the flat of a London sculptor (Jordan Christopher) when neighbors, customers, fiancee and mistress collide during a power blackout...
...Museum of Modern Art staged a one-man exhibit of Nakian's work that illustrated how his style, as he says, "grew out of me as a tree grows." Born to Armenian immigrants on Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because...