Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they seem little more than exercises repeated over and over again. For so sunny and passionate a land, Spain has produced a paradox: a comparatively youthful generation of artists whose experiments add up to monotony. The obsessive colors they all use-black and white, dull greys, somber browns, putty greens-are the colors of joylessness...
...high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
...mood was somber and the talk was tough. Barred from their dressing rooms, actors milled aimlessly around outside their theaters signing autographs. A sound truck sent out by the producers' League of New York Theaters drew up in a darkened street to proclaim "We hope this Equity strike ends soon." The actors, who call it a lockout, shouted back, "Lie! Lie!" Perched on the stoop of the Playhouse, Anne Bancroft announced: "We're the actors-the smiling ones. The worried-looking ones over there are the producers." Said Raymond Massey: "I'm sick of people saying...
...services. Several 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...
Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...