Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critic Alfred Frankfurter, editor of Art News. "She would ask me hundreds of questions," says Frankfurter, "about why certain artists were important in their time. She wondered why Perugino was not considered to be as good as Raphael." Though she was eager for advice, she had wisdom of her own. Among her purchases was Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Fraternity of Perugia. "It was a sophisticated choice," says Frankfurter. "It is one of the greatest pre-Raphael paintings...
...inscription facing Massachusetts Avenue says, "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." And at the same gate, as you leave the Yard: "Depart To Serve Better Thy Country and Mankind." In the Yard, grow in wisdom: outside, serve mankind. And at Radcliffe there is talk of surrounding the quadrangle with a wall to buttress an unconfident identity. There will be a gate, and a similar inscription...
...cleared away as the heads of two friendly and allied states talk things over in an atmosphere of reason." But in Europe there were no illusions at all. William Randolph Hearst Jr., setting out on one of his journalistic junkets, sensed a "European atmosphere of doubt about the wisdom of the trip and misgivings about its outcome." And the French press was plainly not enthusiastic. "It would be vain to hope." editorialized Paris' Le Monde, "that the discussion magically ends the differences . . . between France...
...Kissed Me: "Leo G. Carroll brightens up Mrs. Kerr's play in much the same way that flowers brighten a sickroom." Then there was the hapless actor who was commended for "playing his role up to the hilt except that he had no sword." Wit can be instant wisdom. Kronenberger's first clever words on a playwright have often proved to be the last word in sound critical judgment, as when he wrote of Christopher Fry: "He is less in the world of people than in the world of nouns and metaphors...
Answers in 3,000 Languages. What draws this traffic is the library's unique openhandedness with 80 miles of bookshelves that bear witness to 50 centuries of human wisdom and folly-some 28 million items, from Babylonian clay tablets, a Gutenberg Bible and 3,000 cookbooks to five Shakespeare First Folios and Washington's hand-written Farewell Address (3,000,000 more books are in the library's 81 branches). Unlike many of the world's other great libraries, which believe in the closed-door policy, the New York Public Library delivers books to anyone...