Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instantly identified. Yet this was true of Boris Artzybasheff, our old friend and colleague who died last week at the age of 66 (see MILESTONES). Looking at a computer eating file cards, a long-legged robot stalking through a lunar landscape, or a hydraulic press squatting like an ancient, malevolent god, one immediately recognized the unique vision of the 20th century that belonged to Artzybasheff...
...time for the part that is serious composer. He had not composed a work since the Kaddish symphony two years ago. But he could not say no when the Bishop of Chichester asked him to create a piece for the 1965 Tri-Choir Festival to be held at the ancient cathedral in Sussex, England. Last week a capacity audience of the excited and curious packed into New York's Philharmonic Hall to hear the Chichester Psalms...
...much disputed final eleven verses of Mark, describing the Resurrection, are relegated to a footnote in the Protestant RSV. The Catholic edition restores them to the text, although a note explains that the passage is not found in all ancient manuscripts. Most Biblical scholars believe that the lines are a later addition to the original Gospel...
Behind Giap's regulars stand fully half a million militiamen, trained and armed (though often with ancient fowling pieces), bolstered by the "Three Readys Movement"-1,500,000 volunteers who are supposedly "ready to fight, join the army, and go whereever needed." Last week Hanoi took further steps toward full mobilization by ordering 2,500,000 young men and women into the "Brigade of Young Volunteers to Fight U.S. Aggression for National Salvation." As bulky in numbers as it is in name, the brigade will work in fields and factories vacated by militiamen...
...denouncing the "ugly mug of capitalism," edited a strident, anticolonial weekly called Le Paria (The Untouchable), wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes tres: Tonkin China, Annam and Cochin China. His pleas were lost in the shuffle of more immediate history, and he never got to see Wilson. But the farsighted Bolsheviks in Moscow saw promise in the skinny, ardent Annamite...