Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harlow H. Curtice of General Motors: symbol and epitome of American industry. He has the vision, the courage, the initiative and the spirit that make business a success and Americans' magnificent production a reality...
Deeds Alone. Down through the centuries, the Jews have lit the Hanukkah lights for eight days each year as a bright symbol of hope. In modern times, Hanukkah has turned into a kind of Jewish counterpart of Christmas-pretty, eight-candle Menorahs instead of Christmas trees, potato pancakes and doughnuts instead of plum pudding, a Hanukkah hymn instead of Come All Ye Faithful, and eight days of presents for the children...
...introduction of the record (Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor, RCA Victor): "Here indeed is a great pianist, probably the world's greatest. His piano always sings at his touch. Mr. Gilels comes here not as a Soviet representative but as an artist ... as a symbol of the world's artistic unity." Thanksgiving morning was purely routine in the mansion of Washington's Hostess-with the-Mostes' Perle Mesta, until her curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared...
...Cortez, the revolutionists Zapata and Padre Miguel Hidalgo. But Orozco alone of Mexico's Big Three took a hard second look at the world about him and had the courage to draw what he saw: the Marxist "liberator" in turn enslaving the revolutionaries, the Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry manifesto images of Siqueiros. But they expressed the age-old cry of the Mexican people, and as such stand...
...almost beyond price. In all, sales this year in auction rooms and galleries will reach $65 million. Can the bull market keep up the pace? Says FORTUNE: "The long-range answer seems to be that it can-and probably will." More Per Inch. "Art is not only the symbol of wealth, it is the actuality of wealth," former Metropolitan Art Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor once pointed out. And as an investment, most collectors have found art to be right on a par with the bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait of a Young Girl, recently on loan...