Word: shawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spaniard in him still ruled the spirit of his work. It shows in the nobility of his Don Quixote. And even in his most abstract work, there are the symbols of Spain-a Spanish comb, the fringe of a shawl, a guitar's strings, the horns of a bull. The show-57 sculptures, five enamels, 41 drawings and pastels-will tour the United States and Canada until 1963. Everywhere it travels, it will remind sculptors of their debt to Gonzalez, and of the iron-hard sadness of his life and thought...
...could not be enunciated today without a ribald response"), and they gave the opera an extra twist by making Densher announce, after the death of the heiress, that he no longer loves his covetous mistress, Kate Croy. At opera's end, lonely Kate wraps herself in a white shawl that once belonged to the heiress, Milly Theale-the wings of the dove still divide the plotters...
Probity with Ardor. As the years went by, Ingres became a querulous, touchy man. so sensitive that his wife would shield his eyes with a shawl to keep him from seeing a deformed beggar in the street. For all his crotchets, Ingres remained true to himself. "Drawing is the probity of art." he said, and he would make as many as 100 sketches before deciding how to place a single arm in a painting. Though he turned out his share of pretentious failures, he was always the master of composition. And despite his apparent indifference to color, such canvases...
...alumni have lent a number of works to the show; Industrialist Stephen C. Clark, '03, donated 24 pieces to the exhibit, among them Degas' Self Portrait. Another top contributor is Henry J. (57 Varieties) Heinz, '31, who lent Rufino Tamayo's somber Woman with a Shawl, along with 15 other paintings and sculpture. Estimated value of all the art treasures shown: more than $20 million...
...Abraham Lincoln made a phone call from Gettysburg to his press-agent in Manhattan. Abe was rebellious. He was going to shave his beard and wear a cardigan. The flack demanded that he keep the beard, shawl, stovepipe and string tie, or he would wreck his "image." Abe then announced that he had his speech neatly typed, and this distressed the flack even more. "Abe," pleaded the pressagent, "how many times have we told you: on-the-backs-of-envelopes...