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Word: burrs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner of the studio is the figure whose making reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

August 6, 3 p.m., Lecture, '"Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," Stuart P. Atkins, in Burr Hall B; 8:30 p.m., lecture "On the Theatre," Robert Whitehead, executive producer, Producers Theatre, in Lowell Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Events of This Week | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...Summer School's Afternoon Lecture Series continues today with a talk on "The Classical Style in Modern Art." Location for the speech is the air-conditioned B Room of the Allston Burr Lecture Hall, and the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afternoon Lecture | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...Summer School highlights scheduled for today are the Thursday Afternoon and Evening Lectures, part of a series which continues at the same time each week. At 3 p.m., in Allston Burr Hall B, Robert C. Tucker, Professor of Government, University of Indiana, will lecture on "Education and Soviet Society." At 8:30 p.m., Louis Kronenberger will speak in Lowell Lecture (New Lecture) Hall on "The American Theatre Today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tucker-Kronenberger Give Lectures Today | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series at 3:00 p.m. in Allston Burr Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Events Schedule | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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