Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gainsborough, with Copley's 1788 portrait of two colonels, hung directly below, reveals the English master's direct influence on American painting. The contrast between the gentlemanly rendering of the English officer and the frank force of the American portrait highlights the differing achievements of the two artists. Seymour Slive and Sydney Freedberg have done an expert job in selecting and hanging the paintings in a progression which allows each work to contribute to the understanding of those around it; John Audubon's family of turkeys reflects the French artist Oudry's earlier Blue Herons, literally and figuratively...
...does not think he has been co-opted, even if the Times job did enable him at the age of 40 to buy the first real bed he has ever owned. He happily finds himself, and old colleagues from his radical and poor days like John Leonard and Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, able to get their "views printed in the mass media that would have ruled them out in the '50s and '60s." Access journalists have to live by more rigid rules than the fiercely "honest" radical journalists for whom, in more tumultuous times...
...last three years the museum, under the directorship of Seymour Slive, has moved into an ever-closer association with the teaching process. A permanent gallery operates in cooperation with Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art," changing its exhibits weekly to coincide with the course's various themes. Curators of the museum like John Rosenfield and Konrad Oberhuber teach Harvard courses, and the museum hosts a myriad of seminars, employing the extensive reserves of material in its collections. The Fogg's use as an instructional facility is "on a par with Fitzwilliam at Cambridge (England), the Ashmolean...
Among economists, there was inevitable disagreement over Carter's program to stimulate the economy (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset also found that Carter's "whole folksy approach doesn't send me, but it's not designed to, and does apparently send the average guy. The question is: How long is it before the average guy starts thinking he's being manipulated?" Yet so far, as Dartmouth Government Professor Laurence I. Radway put it, "turning down the heat and doing away with imperial frills" has made "Joe Sixpack satisfied and pleased with Carter...
...coins stolen from the Fogg Museum are found in the piggybank of the daughter of Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg. After testifying before a grand jury investigating the theft, Slive tells reporters, "I thought they looked familiar...