Word: constantine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such Greek problems as Cyprus and the threat of Iron Curtain countries to the north got a thorough going-over during Ike's talks with Premier Constantin Karamanlis. The Greeks, too, delicately hinted that the President should not put too much stock in Russian peace talk, reminded him that they had fought a bitter civil war to drive the Communists out of the country after World War II. Greece had staked out a priority interest in all Balkan affairs, and got from Ike his assurances that the U.S. and Greece would consult on such affairs...
...reputation for fine sculpture casting runs back 200 years. André Susse, 49, the seventh in the Susse line of foun-drymen, is a meticulous craftsman and connoisseur. Over the years, Susse Brothers has played host and helper to such far-flung makers of sculpture history as Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, Germaine Richier, and the painter-sculptors Picasso, Giacometti, Braque, Dali and Chagall...
Epstein studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, made a little money as an illustrator. In his early 203 he invaded Paris, became a close friend of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Together they "discovered" and fell under the spell of African carving. Later, Epstein staked out elegant old London as his chosen battleground, began alternately shocking and dazzling the British with hugely energetic, part sentimental and part brutal monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted...
...Pentelic marble of Greece. Almost too many influences are detectable in Noguchi's works, ranging from the rock gardens he knew in his boyhood in Japan (his father was a Japanese professor of English literature at Keio University, his mother an American) to his apprenticeship under Rumanian-born Constantin Brancusi. But Noguchi has managed to create a whole range of forms recognizably...
Competitive Flight. Last week's space junket took off on a typewriter at 7:52 p.m. Monday in Paris, where Agence France-Presse, on a telephoned tip from its Moscow Bureau Chief Constantin Zar-nekau, flashed: "For the first time, a man has been put aboard a Soviet rocket, it is believed in Western circles." Forty-one minutes later, after communicating with Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Shapiro, United Press put on the wire a wary note to editors stating that there were "rumors" in Moscow of a manned rocket but "no official confirmation." Reuters also sidled...