Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edward John Poynter and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema were not and could not be. There was no way of judging the academicians by the standards of postimpressionism. You either execrated them and were on the side of history, or enjoyed them and missed the bus. The art the Victorians liked fell victim to the revolutionary mind. After Cezanne and Matisse were exhibited in London, the Royal Academicians complained about "Bolshevism in art." They were in a sense right. Within 20 years the Victorian subject-pictures had ceased to be the glory of English collections; they...
...Bus to Tanglewood Music Festival (all Beethoven Concert); leaves 10:00am. from Johnston Gate; bus tickets $6 at Dean's Office. Memorial Church Service, 11 a.m. The preacher will be the Reverend Charles C. Hefling...
Harvard Summer School Bus Trip to Horseneck Beach; leaves 9 am. from Johnston Gate; tickets $4 at Dean's office...
...death toll rises steadily as the bloody civil war in Rhodesia grinds on, with little hope for an early settlement. Last week black nationalist guerrillas attacked a convoy of 50 vehicles at Kariba, 140 miles north of Salisbury. A bus driver and three young white girls died from bullet wounds; 16 other passengers were wounded. Later, guerrillas attacked and set fire to a tiny village in the Zwimba Tribal Trust Land, killing 17 of its 22 black inhabitants...
...seventh Earl of Lucan, descended from the commander who ordered the Charge of the Light Brigade, was reportedly driven to murder a few years ago by debts incurred during his binges at the chemin defer tables, at $2,000 a deal. At least one turf-preoccupied London bus driver became famous for tooling past passenger queues and rushing instead to the betting shops along his route. Not surprisingly, Gamblers Anonymous operates a 24-hour rescue service in Britain. Says the respected British scientist and public policy analyst, Lord Rothschild: "Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers, but I think...