Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the warm oceanic air that drifts toward the land in summer as well as in winter come the undesirable hurricanes. Before 1938, said Namias, few hurricanes hit the coast north of Cape Hatteras. Most of them followed a curving track into the Atlantic. Now, with the change in the pattern of the planetary wind, they tend to cross the coastline instead of veering away from...
...South Africa, gimlet-eyed Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, presented his first program to Parliament last week. It was pure Malanism. Strydom asked Parliament to reduce the authority of South Africa's highest courts, which for three years have thwarted old Daniel Malan's attempt to disenfranchise 50.000 Cape Colored (mixed blood) voters. He was less extreme than his enemies had feared (he did not yet demand, for example, that South Africa sever ties with Britain), a fact which gave his program almost the appearance of moderation. But moderation, Strydom style, includes recommending legislation which would...
...this country, demands both an exacting craftmanship and the most profound philosophic reflection for its highest enjoyment. The combination of talents makes it the most difficult of arts and it has been little practiced outside of certain circles in Japan. About four years ago, however, a group gathered on Cape Cod whose happy union of philosophic and practical energy made possible the first International Non-Objective Kobu Art Association...
...present Association was founded in Truro (Cape Cod) in 1951 under the auspices of a root-polishing native who knew the technical aspects of the work, and a New York lawyer, Herman N. Finkelstein, who provided the philosophic leadership and subsequently became the Association's first (and only) president. During the summer the group flourished in the cranberry-laden countryside of the Cape, digging up roots and making the first steps in a highly complex art with improvised tools. When the halcyon summer days were over, the Association moved to New York, took on a Canadian member to become "International...
Although its activities have expanded, the Association holds with an almost rigid fanaticism to its original princpiles. Publicity is shunned. Entrance requirements are so rigorous that it is questionable whether anyone at all could now pass scrutiny of the members. And every year the group returns ritually to Cape Cod, laying by a store of precious kobus for the barren winter months in New York. Once gathered, the roots undergo a minute screening, for the Association prides inself on its phenomenally low production: in four years the whole group has made only twenty finished kobus and some of these...