Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is remarkable about Louis' canvases is their simplicity. They are devoid of any recognizable form; color is forced to carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
When most men visit Van Cleef & Arpels, the jewelry salon on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the result is likely to be an overdrawn bank account. When George Balanchine visits Van Cleef & Arpels, the result is a ballet. Jeweler Claude Arpels once suggested that Balanchine create a jewel-inspired dance, so the choreographer took a stroll past the store's gleaming showcases, and sure enough, his head filled with visions of bedecked ballerinas. Why not a trilogy, he thought, based on the motifs of emeralds, rubies and diamonds...
Under such circumstances, the average Briton may not have lost money under freeze and squeeze, but he has not gained much either. Prices are steady; he can cover his needs, visit a pub, even buy such luxuries as a new television set. But sales of autos and houses are slow because money is tight. Few people will vacation abroad this year because of the $140 limit on money that can be taken out of the country...
...Maugham was exaggerating, he at least had a point. Isherwood writes so well that his recent brief, cameolike novels, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man and now A Meeting by the River, surpass most of the encyclopedic psychodramas produced by men laboring under weightier careers...
Lederer has sometimes found his role as foreign policy critic advantageous. Shortly after writing "A Nation of Sheep" in 1962, he dropped by the White House to visit a Kennedy aide. As Lederer tells the story, the President, carrying galley proofs of the book, emerged from his office to meet the author. The President, Lederer recalls, liked the book "and asked me if I knew what the British had done in Malaya. I said that I did, but that it would take me a few minutes to write it down. He took me to his office...