Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were of no mind to risk bringing him down at the cost of new elections, and there was no other Tory at hand to replace him. Furthermore, Sir Anthony's un-Edenish tone and temper during the first days of the crisis, and his subsequent softening, could be understood and accepted by many Britons. In the first place, a very broad band of British public opinion was genuinely and deeply angered by Nasser's seizure; any British spokesman using less than strong language would have been accused of not representing the true reaction of the nation.* Secondly, urbane...
...tossed up was rigorously controlled by one of the keenest sensibilities in modern art, the result was a lifetime's staggering production of nearly 9,000 works which have an uncanny ability to communicate indirectly to man; their meanings can often be sensed long before they are fully understood. After the war, in which he served as clerk and airplane painter in the Kaiser's army, Klee for ten years was a member of the experimental Bauhaus movement in company with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and Kandinsky. But the Bauhaus' dedication to the discipline of the machine...
...lost his right arm, but stubbornly refused to abandon his virtuoso career. He commissioned and performed Ravel's Concerto for Left Hand, two works by Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten's Diversions on a Theme. Wittgenstein (now 68 and a teacher in Manhattan) also commissioned-but never understood or played-the Prokofiev concerto that was premièred last week by Siegfried Rapp, a musician with a story similar...
YOUR AUG. 27 ISSUE REPORTS THIS QUOTATION FROM ME TO THE HONORABLE JOHN MCCORMACK, CHAIRMAN OF THE PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: "GRIFFIN WELL UNDERSTOOD. SAID HE AFFABLY: 'THANK YOU JOHN. I'LL JUST TELL THE BOYS THAT YANKEE SONOFABITCH WOULDN'T GIVE ME ANY TIME...
...from being understood-quite far-even by our friends," Pissarro confided to his son toward the end of his life. In his day he was reconciled to receiving $500 for a painting. But since then, the boom in impressionist paintings has far surpassed his wildest imaginings. Today Paris art dealers get $15,000 for a small Pissarro oil. The estimated value of Peasant Digging...