Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History has been elected to life membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Marc Connelly, president of the institute, announced Monday...
...where four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...
...experts. Malskat told the court, started when he and Fey found that there was more money to be made in selling Malskat's fakes than in Malskat's originals. The two partners soon swamped the German market with up to 2,000 expert imitations of 71 ancient and modern masters. Then came the idea of "restoring" St. Mary's Gothic murals. Recalled Malskat: "I was allowed to stop fabricating French impressionists. Fey had a better job for me: I had to go back to the Middle Ages." But when "that crook Fey took all the credit...
Philosopher & Friend. Author Duff (who holds a law degree) argues that the public should be admitted to hangings, as it was in England until 1868, so that the people may share once more in Britain's "ancient and symbolical ritual." By selling film rights to hangings, the master executioners could be rewarded with more than their present fee (about $44 a knot). Moreover, says Duff, hangings should be broadcast for their highly dramatic sound effects, such as "the crack like a muffled shot of a small pistol which indicates the official breaking of the criminal's neck...
Concentrators must elect their specialities from six fields: ancient, medieval, Renaissance, 17th and 18th centuries, modern or oriental art. Frederick B. Deknatel, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, likened the program to that first introduced by the Department of History and Literature...