Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role in trying to confine the war in Jordan and told the sailors: "Believe me, never has American power been used with more effectiveness." It was, he said, "a restrained and diplomatic use of power." Earlier, he emerged from a chat at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport with 32 Americans who were en route home after being released by Arab hijackers to say that the erstwhile hostages endorsed his policy. At the Southern European headquarters of NATO in Naples, he described the alliance as "perhaps the most successful of any in the history of the world." He insisted...
...bathetic men who has ever lived. He cannot tolerate the placid idiocy and demagogic pollutants of American society. He criticizes, as an American citizen, the corruption of monotone imaginations. He follows an austerely classical sense of art as the discipline of craft. His credo is essentially that of da Vinci: "The only liberty is through discipline." But he is saved from prodigiously sterile, mechanical retrogression by the capriciousness of his intellect...
...High Dam at Aswan. Though several museums wanted it, the Met won by promising to build a special climate-controlled building to protect it from the rigors of U.S. weather. The costliest gift is the private collection of Investment Banker Robert Lehman, which includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Da Vinci and Rembrandt and has an estimated value of over $100 million. The late Bobby Lehman, former board chairman of the Met, willed his collection to the museum on condition that it would be kept together and displayed in a setting similar to the one it enjoyed in his elegant Manhattan town...
Minnie's Boys does not present the birth of stars, merely the birth pangs of stars. It is a little like watching a boy finger-painting and then brushing a few crude daubs on a canvas, after which these scenes are assembled in a show called Mama da Vinci's Boy Leon. Few people are likely to want to see the ordeal of apprenticeship onstage, the step-by-step trial of talent, and the stumble-by-stumble inevitability of error. In Minnie's Boys that is pretty much what the audience is condemned to observe. Only once...