Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where the other impressionists made a cult of painting out-of-doors, Mary Cassatt rarely left the drawing room. From the new fads for photography and Japanese prints, she introduced cropped images and flattened perspectives into her interiors. In A Cup of Tea (1880), the stripy wallpaper anchors the otherwise impossible perspective, so tilted that the tea service seems ready to slide off the picture. Yet the scene is strictly ordered. The smooth sweep from the china on the tray through the woman's hands to her lips spatially expresses a measured social gesture. The painting, on view...
...generous. As she never lacked for money (her brother became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), she quietly lent much of it to Paris Dealer Durand-Ruel to help back the impressionists and sold Pissarro (of whom she said "he could have taught stones to draw correctly") at her tea parties. She was largely responsible for the Havemeyer collection, which stocked New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with many of its great El Grecos, Manets, Courbets and Corots...
...East-West Institute offers lectures in Oriental philosophy and culture as well as macrobiotic meals. Kushi's latest bulletin lists such courses as Japanese Language and Literature. Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement, Aikido (a traditional Japanese martial art), Oriental Cocking, and Oriental Philosophy and its Applications...
Cabinet Candy. On a normal day, he rises at 7, breakfasts lightly on fruit juice, tea and dry toast, then retires to his private chapel for morning prayers. By 9 he is in his study, reading the Madrid newspapers and the official reports stacked high on his large mahogany desk. The calm does not last long. At midmorning the palace is invaded by Franco's seven grandchildren (ages one to 14). Trailed by their English nanny, they race down the Pardo's wide granite corridors, past six-foot honor guards and enormous Goya tapestries, and burst into...
...little watered wine for the kids in the lower grades, sherry as well as tea at school functions, "practice drinking" in the college years-so goes Harvard Psychiatrist Morris Chafetz' proposal for what he holds would be a valuable addition to the curriculum of U.S. schools. "I would provide students with group experiences in drinking," he told a Conference on Alcohol and Food in Health and Disease at the New York Academy of Sciences last week, so that they might "familiarize themselves with their own reactions to alcohol and learn the signals that portend an unhappy drinking experience...