"During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys. … (Their) impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war." - AP
After the war, Nietzsche was practically radioactive. In the newfound German Democratic Republic (GDR), where he was officially declared a “pioneer of fascism,” his writings were forbidden, while in West Germany he was shrouded in silence and suspicion. - Commonweal
"A dapper, soft-spoken architect who spent much of his career in academia, (he) was in some ways an unlikely architect of the World War II Memorial, a classically inspired plaza home to granite columns, bronze sculptures and a fountain, just east of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"(He was) best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work. … His other celebrated works included Changing Places and The British Museum is Falling Down, about a poor student who is distracted while attempting to write a thesis." - BBC
Over the years, Gottfried Leibniz’s reputation continued to grow as more unpublished work came to light, some of which would make him the godfather of the digital age. But he will never quite live down Voltaire’s ridicule. - The New Yorker
Kidman, currently in the Oscars mix for Babygirl, says, “I’ve learned how to have a pretty stable, sensible life, which I know sounds boring, but my artistic life is anything but that.” - The Observer (UK)
The co-writer of I Heart Huckabees and the director of Life After Beth, which starred his wife, Aubrey Plaza, Baena “often elevated dark thematic elements with humor in his works.” - The New York Times
“Johnson provided a national readership with access to performances that might be attended by only a dozen listeners, and possibly never heard again. He saw himself as a participant within the scene, and he provided such generous coverage that he became known among composers as ‘Saint Tom.’” - The New York Times
And what he did, in fact, say — during a 1963 interview for a feature about Pop art in ARTnews — was not about art at all, though an interventionist (and uptight) editor made it seem otherwise. Warhol was actually talking about sexuality. - Artnet
O’Keeffe to Stieglitz: "Having told you so much of me — more than anyone else I know — could anything else follow but that I should want you?" Stieglitz to O'Keeffe: "You are so much to me that you must not come near me — Coming may bring you darkness instead of light." - Artnet
She became a household name in the US thanks to her decade starring in the CBS sitcom Alice, and she worked regularly in TV and film thereafter, but she was at heart a stage actress, with a Tony Award and multiple nominations to her credit. - AP
"We have no ministry of culture in this country, and I hope we never will. No matter how democratic a government may be, no matter how responsive to the wishes of its people, it can never be government’s role to define exactly what is good, or true or beautiful.” - The Art Newspaper
Charles Dolan was one of the cable TV industry’s most aggressive operators and marketers. He created the nation’s first urban cable television network, Manhattan Cable, in the 1960s. He introduced feature-length, commercial-free movies on cable with his Home Box Office, for subscribers who paid extra to receive it. - The New York Times
“Holocaust scholar Richard Plant said 'begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.’ With its graphic account of privation, suffering and death in French and German concentration camps, Mr. Plant warned, it was ‘not meant for the squeamish.’” - The New York Times
And by that, the Nickel Boys actor means, “If I hadn’t been able to filter my insistence on justice, and the rage that I feel because of the lack of it, through , I would have had a more dangerous life.” - The Guardian (UK)
