Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color pages). David Von Schlegell's 42-ft.-long jet delta wings gleamed in the sunlight like anchors for interplanetary fleets. Robert Grosvenor's 24-ft.-long yellow Still No Title lanced downward from a portico of the museum building like a bolt of sunlight, ending a breath-taking eight inches from the pavement. John McCracken's brilliant blue column reflected shades upon shades of the California ethos; Lyman Kipp's Muscoot piled reds, greens, blues and yellows jauntily together like an enterprising architect's leftover bundle of construction beams...
...ordeal is not quite so horrible these days as it used to be. Still, all the Yalie juniors were holding their breath somewhat as the tappers fanned out from the windowless "tombs" of Yale's secret senior societies to perform the annual laying on of hands to select new members to their august company. Elihu, Scroll & Key, and the other four recognized societies chose more than 100 third-year men. Like Dink, Olympic Swimming Champion Don Schollander, 20, who brought back four gold medals from Tokyo in 1964, was tapped for Skull & Bones. In grateful awe, he accepted...
...Their hopes were bluntly disappointed. Addressing the opening session of the East German synod, Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krum-macher of Greifswald warned: "If Christians, who are limbs of the one Lord, and who belong together as limbs of one church, are no longer allowed to be mentioned in one breath, it is no longer an institutional question but a matter of the unity of faith in one Lord...
Died. William M. Kincaid, 71, flutist, hailed as one of the world's top performers during his 39 years with the Philadelphia Orchestra and renowned as a teacher of virtually every first-rank U.S. flutist active today, who learned breath control as a child diving for pennies in Honolulu harbor, played in various mainland orchestras until 1921, when Leopold Stokowski lured him to Philadelphia, where he pleased audiences with his lyrical solos on the "metal nightingale"; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...Michael is a large, emphatic man whose demonic belief in his own genius and religious devotion to the theater (he once played a performance of Macbeth with a freshly broken ankle) are warmly encouraged by his wife. It was in this highly qualified atmosphere that Vanessa took her first breath on Jan. 30, 1937. She has called her early childhood lonely and frightening, and it isn't hard to see why. Her parents were often on tour or in Hollywood, once for nine months at a stretch, while Vanessa was left in a London flat in the care of servants...