Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willard Sperry, Buttrick's predecessor as University Preacher. was appointed in 1928 and served concurrently as Dean of the Divinity School. Because of his responsibilities at the School which was very near collapse, Sperry was forced to neglect his duties at Memorial Church. He resigned both posts...
Guillot feverishly ransacked storerooms, stairways, cubbyholes, turned over 400 pictures before he found at the bottom of a pile of some 60 dusty paintings a gloomy landscape that could have been painted by El Greco. Beneath the grime of nearly 100 years of neglect, the picture proved to be the long sought masterpiece. Said one of Madrid's Prado Museum officials: "The brush strokes of El Greco are inimitable, unmistakable. I say it, the director says it, the restorers say it. The picture is El Greco." Valued at $100,000, it will now hang once again in the Real...
...Gloves. Some of the neglect may be traced to the man himself. "I'm a hermit and I have no friends," says Cozzens candidly. For almost a quarter-century, except for a three-year stint writing manuals and speeches...
...Gould Cozzens, 54, whose latest novel, By Love Possessed, is published this week, has spent much of his life getting away from people. He is the Garbo of U.S. letters. He devoutly wishes to be left alone, and critics and readers alike have obliged him to the point of neglect. After a writing span of more than three decades, during which he produced an even dozen novels, Cozzens is the least known and least discussed of major American novelists. Any two people, on discovering that they are both Cozzens fans, are apt to hail each other fervently, like members...
This year, after almost four centuries of neglect, Jacopo Bassano is getting recognition at last. Under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, a summer-long exhibition is being given in Venice, and most of the ornate third floor of the Doge's Palace on the Piazza di San Marco is taken over by 86 religious, Biblical and scenic paintings, 13 portraits and 30 drawings by the man from Bassano...