Word: essays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hiroshige print White Rain at Shōno under his Christmas tree. "Alas, my chances are slim," he admits. "It was auctioned at Christie's New York this year for $13,000." But no art, thank you, for Art Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote this week's Essay on collecting. Says Hughes, who has received his share of free samples from would-be-but-weren't Picassos: "I'll accept anything anybody chooses to give me, except unsolicited artwork...
...only three minutes and 45 seconds to gavel down Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs for $2.5 million. That was the third highest bid ever made for a painting at auction* and more than twice as much as any other American work of art has ever fetched (see ESSAY). In all, the 264 works by 146 American painters of the 19th and 20th centuries posted a record for a sale of U.S. art: $6,750,950. The Icebergs, a flamboyant canvas by one of America's best landscapists, was bought by Texas Oilman Lamar Hunt. Despite its size...
Frank Trippett's Essay [Oct. 29] on astounding numbers was excellent. But how could he possibly leave out one of the most intriguing units of measurement known to man, the light-year-the distance that light travels in one year's time...
...closely supervised are the intelligence agencies by high-level government ministers. Pointing up the issue of class, Labor M.P.s charged that the soft treatment accorded Blunt was evidence that Britain's "old boy" network was ever ready to protect one of its own from public wrath (see ESSAY). As Scottish M.P. William Hamilton angrily put it, the upper-class establishment had been so determined to protect its members that it had allowed "an ex-public school boy, a homosexual and a traitor for 20 years" to operate within the gates of the palace. "I have never felt so sick...
...Blunt affair came as no shock to the author of this Essay. He was recruited into the M16 branch of British intelligence during World War II, and operated for 18 months as a spy at Lourengo Marques in Mozambique. His boss at M16 headquarters was Kim Philby-as it turned out-of the KGB. "Intelligence gathering, "the author later observed, "is even more fantasy-prone than news gathering. In the latter, you are often expected to make bricks without straw, but in the former, to grow lemons without a tree. "He thus retired from spying with some relief...