Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news that he just got away, the assumption that there is such a composite creature secure and even vindicated. The Hofstadters and the Goldmans have all fiddled extensively with his natural and social environment, and it has remained for Christopher Lasch to lead us through his kitchen and attic and gently draw back the curtains on the family's cranky four-poster...
...after he had started work on Tristan-when Ludwig II was crowned king of Bavaria. An effeminate, blue-eyed, ethereally handsome lad who was Wagner's most ardent admirer, Ludwig, then 18, dispatched an emissary to track down his idol, finally discovered the composer holed up in an attic room of a hotel in Stuttgart...
Magnificent Deduction. Launching and outfitting any new museum involves prodigious effort. The old county museum was an attic for archaeology and science as well as art. "It was a historical anomaly," says Director Brown, "really a 16th century Wunderkammer, with everything but a unicorn's horn and an ostrich egg." Stutz Bearcats, dinosaur tails and mineral collections clamored for attention with the art works...
...collection are 4,000 musical instruments from a baroque organ to Alpine zithers; and the museum's three Stradivarius violins are regularly lent for concerts in the Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Its priceless collection of 1,450 Greek pots includes all the known shapes of Attic vases across three centuries, except for one, an elusive type of lekythos. One corner of the museum contains an unequaled war lord's ransom of well-wrought jade in the Heber R. Bishop collection...
...premeditated prize-seeker, the Bowdoin Prizes offer remuneration for creativity in three different languages. A winning essay in English on any subject is worth $600. Prizes of $300 are offered for original essays in Latin and Greek. In addition, the best translation into Attic Greek of R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, from Page 21 ("The ardour with which the Greeks. . .") to page 23 ("The points of danger in the rhythms now going on.") wins...