Word: wight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveled on his lonely way is shown by the largest-ever collection of Dove's work now starting a crosscountry tour at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, and a new book by Art Critic Frederick S. Wight (Arthur G. Dove; University of California; $2). Together they go far to establish Dove's status as the U.S.'s first abstract painter and a pivotal figure in contemporary...
...right-bank English poet (The Highwayman), critic (Voltaire), philosopher ("God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies"), novelist (The Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated." Novelist...
...Ambassador to Italy James D. Zellerbach went to the Vatican, presented Pope Pius XII with 1957's George Washington Carver Memorial Institute Gold Award for the pontiff's "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare." (1956 winner: D wight D. Eisenhower.) Said His Holiness: "It is not to our humble person this award is directed, but to truth and charity, whose defense is our mission...
After the Fireworks. "The Problem now," says the Art Institute's director, Edward H. Dwight, 38, "is to keep them coming." Director D wight can apparently count on the drawing power of the new building's architecture. "It just insists that you wander in," said one Milwaukeean. When the city staged a fireworks celebration for its World Series-winning Braves last month in front of the Memorial Center, some 7,100 celebrators decided to take in the art show. Many of them had never been in an art gallery...
...done it without stumbling or even seeming to breathe hard. She studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked on a masterly series of religious pictures drawn directly from the life and the people about...