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One dark shadow clouded Kosygin's glowing canvas: the poor 1959 grain harvest. Because of "unfavorable weather conditions" in the Ukraine, Kosygin said, the yield would merely "exceed the average annual harvest for the last five years." This was a tricky way of saying that the 1959 crop would...
With 90 offices, the building will provide space for the staffs of Romance Languages, Germanic Languages, Slavic, History and Literature, Comp Lit, Classics, and Public Speaking (housed in the "attic"). With these numerous offices, the departments will have expanded facilities that will soon allow even the junior members to enjoy...
Of the immediate contemporaries, the Italian sculptor, Giacometti, uses his electric virtuosity to enliven a canvas, one of his few. The subject appears ghost-like through the frantic scribblings of incised oil paint.
Garrulous Raconteur. London's critics hail Bratby as the brightest and best of the Kitchen-Sinkers, and London art buyers snapped up all but a handful of his new paintings. "He can be visually greedy, slightly coarse-grained, literal, shocking in a good-humored, terrier sort of way," says...
Against the Crimson heavies, whose shell was optimistically named "Grand Challenge Cup 1914," the first Isis crew set out in a boat named "1869," this being the date of the only time when first university-wide crews from both institutions had previously met. Again, Isis rushed to an early lead...