Word: sert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franz Liszt sighed as Misia Sert played the piano, "Ah, if only I could still play like that." Grieg asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There...
Whatever it is in a woman that sends poets, artists and commonplace millionaires into a swirl, Misia Sert had. She was a Polish beauty who was born in Russia, chose to live in France, and found the great love of her life with a Spaniard. Then, to make her Spaniard happy, she gave him up to a younger woman. Misia's memoirs are written in low key. sometimes with the flatness of a diary. But despite her flaws as a writer, her story gives a revealing account of life on the borderland of Bohemia in a bygone Europe...
...President will also be asked to find a way to boost the sagging Divinity School fund drive, which has advanced only one-sixth of the way toward its three million dollar quota. The Design School, with a newly appointed Dean Jose Sert, is also undergoing a shakeup...
After the lecture, Sert stated that he intends to offer a course similar to the old design 1 if funds are available...
Asserting that "functionalism also is a blind alley," Sert maintained that architecture must use the combined resources of the plastic arts to "embody a way of life...