Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Gallery's courtly, erudite Director John Walker, 60, who has spent years negotiating for the painting, the present hoo-ha is simply proportionate to the prize. He has coveted Ginevra dei Bend ever since he was first shown the painting in the prince's collection by the late Bernard Berenson, in 1930. "After I became curator of the National Gallery," Walker recalls, "Berenson would say to me, 'I don't care what else you get as a curator, but before I die, I want you to get the Leonardo...
Complex as Life. Walker himself came to understand Berenson's insist -ence when he observed the lady at length while it was on loan at London's Na tional Gallery between 1951 and 1953. "This picture," he explains, "has a mysterious way of growing on you the more often you see it. To me, Ginevra is utterly fascinating, more fascinating than the Mona Lisa, a miracle of psychological insight. Only once did Leonardo attempt to convey a mood of melancholy reserve, of disillusioned detachment. One feels, to quote Yeats, that Ginevra has 'cast a cold...
...CRIMSON is pleased to announce the election of Anne P. de Saint Phalle '70 of 130 Walker St. and Philadelphia; William R. Galeota Jr. '70 of Greenough Hall and Columbia, Mo.; Kerry Gruson '69 of 100 Walker St. and Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland; Seth A. Lipsky '68 of Lowell House and Great Barrington; and Richard D. Paisner '70 of Wigglesworth Hall and Providence, R.I., to the News Board...
Negro leaders hailed his retirement from the race. Cora Walker, a GOP leader in Harlem, said she felt party committeemen would not have endorsed Meredith...
...Kathryn Walker is excellent as Raymonde, the wife whose romantic pranks and stolid middle-class sympathies recall Tom Sawyer and his day-dream exploits. Although not as fluid as Kaplan, she has caught the silliness necessary to her part, and her voice is the high piping it should...