Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Picture. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower stepped into the Sheraton-Park's ballroom at 9:55 p.m., Ike in a dinner jacket with white carnation, Mamie radiant in a lavender cocktail dress, wearing a single strand of pearls and earrings with the word "Ike" printed on each. Ike raised both arms in familiar salute to the crowd, then went with Mamie to a table, where they sat sipping ice water and watching the movie-sized television screen. As the TV program began, a single spotlight centered on the Eisenhowers, forcing the President to shield his eyes with...
...painter who more than any other possessed an artist's radiant vision of the Nativity, as valid in its harmony and joyous quietude for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as it is today, was a Dominican priest who died in Rome just 500 years ago this year. Even in his lifetime, his fellow monks felt the touch of his genius, awarded him the title of "The Angelic"-Fra Angelico...
...Florence, he relied on rich gold, Byzantine in its richness, for a background. Fra Angelico's own contributions were the new, soft-flowing harmonies of the robes, the fresh coloring which juxtaposed azure against deepest blue, pink against red to create a glowing world of weightless form and radiant, shadowiess color...
...First prize ($2,000) went to France's Alfred Manessier, 44, for his 5-ft.-wide Crown of Thorns (opposite), a radiant liturgical painting in which a molten skull, mouth agape, glows hot beneath a blue-black thorn crown. Painter Manessier, who was reconverted to Roman Catholicism after service in World War II, began to change from figurative to nonfigurative painting in 1947, also branched out into stained glass and tapestry design. With increased recognition as one of France's foremost painters (TIME, Mar. 21) has come a good share of the world's top art awards...
Manhattan critics, hailing the birth of a new star, called Susan Strasberg "enchanting," "radiant" and "breathtaking." A high-school senior at Professional Children's School, Susie stands 5 ft., weighs 96 Ibs. No theatrical novice, she began her career at 14 in an off-Broadway production. She played Juliet on TV when she was only 15, and has already appeared in two movies, The Cobweb and the forthcoming Picnic. Though she was swamped with movie offers after opening night, she will not do another one until next summer...