Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California, this time to Sacramento, where his father eventually enrolled Mark in the swimming program at the downtown Y.M.C.A. There Mark won nearly all his races; his only losses were to a pair of young pool hustlers from the nearby Arden Hills Swim Club. Not taking kindly to defeat, Arnold Spitz promptly turned his young son over to Arden Hills Coach Sherman Chavoor, who has been Mark's mentor?officially and unofficially?ever since. The boy learned fast. At age ten he set his first U.S. record?31 sec. in the 50-yd. butterfly?a record that still stands today...
...paint covers and other art work that by now has won more than 30 art awards, and got name authors like James Michener, Pearl Buck and Nathaniel Benchly to write for them. Recent issues have roamed over such diverse topics as American Indian law, city planning, and British Historian Arnold Toynbee's reflections on religion, morality and the world-city...
...symbiotic relationship: Oscar and his hosts dined out on remarks like that. Levant swiftly became a fixture at Beverly Hills parties: the lap dog with rabies. Though he continued to play and compose (he once studied with Arnold Schonberg), Levant's musicianship was never taken very seriously -except, of course, by Oscar. His classical composition had a sweet, derivative aura, reminiscent of movie scores. (He wrote several, including a mini-opera for Charlie Chan at the Opera.) His pianistic enthusiasm was showy but, except for Gershwin's music, Levant tended to pound the instrument like the back...
...always betrayed, because the peasants basically want to become middle class, and so there's a slippage. Many of the intellectuals now are so hungry for order that they would be willing to see the end of democracy and some new kind of Napoleonic order coming in. Arnold Toynbee, in his recent book Surviving the Future, says that as far as he can see we have a choice between a world federal state with an Alexander at the helm or nothing -annihilation...
...Arnold concedes that possibly harmful radiation from such beams might be a cause for concern, but it need not be an insurmountable problem. The beams could be somewhat spread to reduce their intensity to a safe level, yet still retain enough strength to carry messages...