Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Vickrey is an excellent addition to your staff of cover artists; his portrait of M. Dior is in perfect harmony with your amusing article. Christian's perplexed expression confronted with oversized dressmaker's shears is superb...
...fitting sobriquet for TIME [March 4]-honored Christian Dior is, of course, "The Pied Piper of Hemlines...
...upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
...Webern, a very good name nowadays. Most of the student music has been or will be played at concerts of the Composers Laboratory, and the opportunity for two hearings is valuable as this music is often difficult to grasp at a single hearing. The Pieces for Prepared Piano by Christian Wolff, for example, seemed much more comprehensible than at the first performance; nonetheless their resources will have to be expanded, as the music is too static. The Three Songs, also by Wolff, were an evocative use of Soprano and Flute...
...potsherds, knives, belt fittings, nails, loom weights and a single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted to Christianity. According to a legend repeated by the Venerable Bede, a pious thegn called his attention to a sparrow that flew into the hall in the dead of winter, lingered awhile in the warmth, and then vanished again into the winter dark. The sparrow's stay, the thegn intoned, was like human...