Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company should turn professional and expand. Fischl, now only 28, began promoting ballet throughout Georgia. Result: the company, which once had to venture as far as Alaska to find audiences, now runs two summer schools in Georgia and has established homes away from home in Savannah, Athens and Augusta...
Gary Player won his third Masters on Sunday with a final round tour de force that shattered the serene ante-bellum atmosphere of the Augusta National Golf Club...
Player's sixth sense has been invaluable for a golfer who regularly plays in championships on every continent. This year he won his tenth South African Open. On Sunday he displayed all of his dexterity in gauging the manifold contours of Augusta's greens, which hold approach shots much better than the hard greens of South African courses...
...over the years is uniquely fitting. The course was designed by Alister Mackenzie, an Englishman who had fought in the Boer War. Mackenzie was deply impressed with the Boers' ability to consistently ambush the British forces because of their familiarity with the terrain. When it came time to design Augusta, he was inspired by the subtle techniques of camouflaging he had learned in South Africa...
Jasper Johns, considered by many people the greatest artist at work in America, has been in the public eye for not quite 20 years. It seems longer. No art career pupated more quickly. Johns appeared in 1958 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, a reclusive young Southerner from Augusta, Ga., who had been surviving in virtual isolation in Manhattan since 1952. With his paintings of targets and of the American flag, he landed on point, in the spot, at centerstage: the Museum of Modern Art bought three paintings from that first show, an unheard-of gesture to an unknown painter...