Word: slive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lynn '45, Bernard Malamud, Juan Marichal, Frederick Merk, Barrington Moore Jr., Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Daniel P. Moynihan, Henry A. Murray '15, William W. Nash Jr. '50, David E. Owen, Alwin M. Pappenheimer Jr.'29, Thomas F. Pettigrew, Edward M. Purcell, William V. O. Quine, Eduard F. Sekler, Seymour Slive, F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, Michael L. Walzer, and Robert L. Wolff...
...University. In ten minutes, her father was on the phone protesting to Whitlock. When a fire destroyed a Cambridge Church, the congregation wanted to see if one of its pictures would be worth restoring. Church leaders called Mayor Daniel J. Hayes; Hayes called Whitlock, and Whitlock called Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, to ask him to study the painting...
...Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, said that the museum's plans for the use of the money remain indefinite since, "we don't usually spend four million dollars...
...finding one at bargain-basement prices is-well-something like the nth power of a googolplex. But the bare possibility can turn the most level-headed curator into a creature half Hawkshaw, half Walter Mitty. Such was the spine-tingling predicament of Harvard's Fine Arts Chairman Seymour Slive. On a busman's holiday to Los Angeles, he had been casually shown an unsigned 17th century oil sketch, The Head of Christ, at the Paul Kantor Gallery. The glimpse proved unforgettable. Recalls Slive: "The left side of the face looks almost like a death's head...
Returning across the country on a camping trip with his wife and three children, Slive was haunted by the picture: "I know it "sounds corny, but I honestly had visions of that painting in the campfires." Back in Cambridge, he had the oil sketch shipped to him for closer inspection. Fogg Art Museum colleagues, including Jakob Rosenberg, scrutinized it and agreed on its authenticity. Experts evaluated it as high as $400,000. To make finally certain, Slive strung the painting around his neck in a bag and flew off to Holland. "I felt just like James Bond," confesses Slive...