Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (whose career he transformed into the Broadway hit, The Happiest Millionaire...
...nightscape of a religious ordeal, The White Stone is emotionally somber but intellectually spirited. Novelist Coccioli has failed to solve the perennial problem with religious heroes-making goodness seem exciting. But he has succeeded in an only slightly less exacting task, making goodness seem godly...
...believe," asked one worker, "those damned lying machines or good old Ike?" Disk Jockey Johnny Grant went to the microphone and bellowed: "Look, this is not a wake. We are not losing, and we are not going to lose." Hope died hard-but by 10 p.m. Pacific time, the somber recognition that victory was getting beyond reach hit the Nixon crowd. Almost as if by signal, the ballroom quieted, and the crowd began to drift away, leaving a loyal claque to see out the evening. Two women left in tears...
...Robert Henri, whose goal was to catch ''the living instant" in his boldly brushed portraits, the style of the Ashcan School painters varied from John Sloan's somber slices-of-life, the stark realism of Everett Shinn and George Luks and the darkling canvases of William (Slackens to the airy landscapes of Ernest Lawson and mystical pastorals of Arthur B. Davies. Until the 1908 show, recalled Everett Shinn many years later, "art was only an adjunct of the plush and cut glass...
...went for $106,000, but the main attraction of the evening was Sarlie's 29 Picassos-the largest number ever put on the block at one time. Highest price for a single canvas was the $134,000 paid by Swedish Collector Carl-Bertel Nathhorst for Femme Accroupie, a somber painting of Picasso's "blue" period. And by evening's end, Sotheby's had broken another record: the Picassos brought in $636,720, the biggest single sale of a living artist. Between the Picassos, ten Modiglianis and an assortment of Crises, Soutines, Braques, Rouaults and one Matisse...