Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FERNANDO WOOD, handsome, 6 ft. tall and every inch a charlatan. His mother, during her lying-in period in the year 1812, was reading a popular novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando. She named the baby Fernando-and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to her flamboyant hopes, e.g., he was once credited with saving three lovely maidens from a runaway stagecoach and its drunken driver. Born in Philadelphia, Wood went to New York to become an actor, but turned instead to politics and rose...
...trademark of the whole metal sculpture school, its practitioners agree, is "openness." Unlike the built-up masses of modeled sculpture or the chiseled-down solids of stone and wood, metal sculpture uses materials that give maximum strength with a maximum sense of space...
...next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley, led a setless but fresh-sounding La Boheme. Planned later this season: Shakespeare's Tempest, with the rarely heard incidental music by Jean Sibelius. Wrote the New York Times's Howard Taubman: "The Berkshires have a major festival [at Tangle-wood]. Now the Catskills. Every mountain range may stand benevolently over one in due time...
...sturdy 49, Rorimer set out to become a connoisseur of art with the same care that another man might give to preparation for brain surgery or nuclear physics. Dürer's engraving of Knight, Death and Devil hung over his crib, he recalls, and "I was a wood carver before I was a Boy Scout. At nine, I took a course in arms and armor. I got two years off from prep school to visit the art centers of Europe...
...WOOD...