Word: acquaintanceship
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...Mellon, new president of the National Gallery. A longtime collector of British painting, Mellon acquired most of the works in the show in the past three years, picking them up not only at auctions but directly from the owners of England's stately homes, to which his wide acquaintanceship in British society gave him access. He sprang the collection on the art world as a stunning fait accompli, and museums everywhere are now vying to show it; Virginia got it first because Mellon is a trustee of the museum and a Virginia resident. The show opened with a banquet...
Tokyo Correspondent Don Connery, interviewing Ambassador Reischauer, was renewing an old acquaintanceship that began when Connery, at Harvard, and his wife, at Radcliffe, studied under Reischauer more than ten years ago. For the cover, Connery talked to Reischauer at his office and residence for four hours, continued the conversations riding with the ambassador and his wife Haru in the embassy limousine, at the Christmas party for embassy children, and elsewhere...
...already experienced the full bitterness of Soviet life. Her first husband hanged himself to avoid arrest in the Stalin purges of 1938. Her second died fighting for Russia against the invading Nazis. Each had left her a child: Irina and Dmitry. Olga was a poet herself, and her acquaintanceship with Pasternak grew into an intense and lasting intimacy...
...brambled woods of international affairs, the Eisenhower Administration operates on the proposition that acquaintanceship breeds understanding. Thus the U.S. has seen a steady procession of visiting foreign statesmen who came in response to President Eisenhower's "getting to know you" invitation. Last week Pakistan's Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy arrived in Washington for a talk with President Eisenhower and a close look at the country. For a detailed report on the Prime Minister's background, thinking, personality and private life, TIME queried its correspondents in Karachi and New Delhi. In Washington, TIME'S reporters tapped...
...sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds of Ukrainian party members. It was while on one of these assignments that he struck up an acquaintanceship with Colonel Ivan Serov, NKVD expert in genocide...