Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrinkled old hag was ordered to make tea. She poured a quart of dark, steaming tea into a wooden churn, added a quarter-pound of dirty, strong-smelling yak butter and a heavy dash of salt. After this was thoroughly churned, it was served in a wooden bowl. Oily globules were floating on top. Anywhere else it would have been a nauseating concoction, both in sight and smell. But here in the rarefied cold of the Himalayas it was like a rich, hot soup. After two full bowls, my numbness and exhaustion were gone, and I was off down...
...picks numbered pingpong balls out of a big plastic bowl. As he calls out each number, his assistant ("Miss Marco") posts the number on a giant Marco card on the wall. When a line is filled, the M.C. calls it a game and announces a special phone number (different for each game to avoid jamming circuits). Viewers call in if they think they have won, are kept hanging on the line until their cards are checked, then are announced as winners. (Some first-night prizes: a TV set, a dishwasher, a trip for two to Hawaii...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Guest Conductor Sir Adrian Boult and Soloists Eleanor Steber and Jan Peerce...
...people, and last week a New York Times reporter described much of Bagdad as "a festering slum." An entire civilization once flourished in the Negeb, with terraced lands, inns for wayfarers and broad-avenued cities. The cities have crumbled, and the Negeb is now a dust bowl, with rare patches of green painstakingly watered by dedicated Israelis...
...Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an "artistic debacle." Wrote the Vatican critic: "This is a demonstration of the breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton. "It is sad," the article concluded, "that in Catholic Venice, full of Christian beauty, works...