Word: sert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Jose L. Sert replaced Joseph F. Hudnut as Dean of the Graduate School of Design last September, a new regime of faculty and policy has come about in Robinson Hall, home of design at the University. New, sincere enthusiasm has taken the place of the "loss of heart" attributed to the School last year...
...With Sert's arrival, a fundamental stumbling block, the $10,000 deficit then confronting the School, has been erased by increasing tuition from $600 to $800 per year, and by Corporation grants. Financially solvent, the School has been able to plan important policy changes under the new dean...
...Graduate School of Design also picked itself up financially. Over $3,000 in the red for the 1951-52 year, it showed a profit of $4,277.41. The Design School has been headed by a new dean, Jose Sert, for the past year...
Then Edwards fell in love with an actress, and just when Misia was feeling most deeply forsaken, Jose Maria Sert, the Spanish painter, walked into her apartment wearing a sombrero and Spanish cape. Before leaving, he asked her to go to Rome with him for a few weeks. Amused, irritated and taken aback, she heard herself say she would be delighted. With Sert she "knew what it was to have a dazzled heart," and for the first time had the "calm and frightening feeling of something final...
Their few weeks together stretched into a couple of decades during which Misia continued to charm such people as Diaghilev, Clemenceau and Debussy, and Sert won an international reputation as a mural painter, plus a fortune in commissions. All was idyllic until Sert met Roussadana Mdivani, a Georgian princess young enough to be his and Misia's daughter. It was a strange triangle, with Sert torn between Roussadana and Misia. each of whom loved and consoled the other at every turn of Sert's affection. Misia let him have a divorce. "The poor girl was not responsible...