Word: rosenberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bolshevik assassins in 1918; undying interest has given wide hearings to several claimants to the identity of Anastasia. The divergent ideological fevers of mid-century America guaranteed that the Alger Hiss perjury case would stay effectively open right along with the case of the executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The arguments in both trials are still thundering forth in such books as Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein (against Hiss) and We Are Your Sons by Robert and Michael Meeropol (for the Rosenbergs, who were indeed the Meeropols' parents). There is always the hope of posthumous...
...mark the 200th anniversary of his death, at the age of 80 in 1779, a huge Chardin show opened in January at the Grand Palais in his native Paris, with 142 paintings, drawings and pastels, and a catalogue by one of Europe's most distinguished art historians, Pierre Rosenberg. Two American institutions took part in the production, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; this month the Chardin exhibition-shorn, alas, to 90 works-opened in Cleveland, before moving to Boston in the fall. It is a real event: the kind of show, rare...
...painter ever traveled less in search of nourishment. Apart from trips to Versailles, Chardin may not have left Paris once in all his years. He was a completely metropolitan man, a fact that seems oddly at variance with his paintings, since, as Pierre Rosenberg remarks, "one would like to imagine Chardin a solitary individual, a provincial...
...with Shuttlecock-the expressionless face and white shoulders jammed into the stiff bodice like an ice cream into its cone, the sequence of forms pinned together by accents of blue on her cap, her dress, her scissors ribbon and the feathers of the shuttlecock- to realize the truth of Rosenberg's insight: "The world that Chardin imposes on his figures is a closed world, a stopped world . . . a world at rest, a world of Indefinite duration...
...South African investments indicate that the philosophical and political orientation of the Harvard Presidency is steady as a rock throughout the ages, and that he and former president Increase Mather could have a jolly little party together at the Faculty Club. Here's to tradition, fair Harvard! Paul B. Rosenberg...