Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong have based their political campaign on the assassination of thousands of tax-collectors and government officials. William Tuohy described in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine how "Viet Cong terror is bloodthirsty, but selective. It is a scalpel, not a hammer. It is aimed at the leaders. In three years they drove out 50 per cent of the Vietnames leaders from the countryside." The selectivity of Communist terrorism often gets distorted by American propaganda; surely a decapitated tax-collector in the village square inspires more loyalty and enthusiasm than fear for the Communists...
...Institute of Sound, founded four years ago by a group of Manhattan music lovers as "a central repository for the music, sounds and voices of our times." The Institute's 300,000 tapes and disks, half of them recordings never issued commercially, were donated by private collector, artists, radio stations, the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony. Headquarters for the nonprofit organization are in Carnegie Hall. There Institute President Richard Striker, a 31-year-old exactor, works with six volunteers, surrounded by towering mounds of tapes and recordings...
...embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it," Dürer declared. And to make certain that his insight would be recognized, he became one of the first to sign and date even his most incidental drawings. In this he was fully justified, for his drawings became collector's items in his day. And they have remained collector's items ever since...
...region, writes of a church-backed attempt to organize garbage collection in a typical holler where the families had traditionally tossed their refuse into stinking heaps near their houses. The people were so incensed at this intrusion that some of them took to dumping their refuse on the garbage collector's lawn. In Appalachia few community-wide campaigns go much further...
Morton D. May is a knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector of expressionist, impressionist, abstract and primitive art. He is also president and chief executive of the St. Louis-based May Co., the third largest U.S. retail chain (64 stores). Reasoning that what appeals to him might also interest his customers, May arranges frequent art exhibits in his stores, even gathered a collection of African, New Guinean and Mediterranean primitive art to be sold there. The collection, priced from $3 to $6,000, went quickly. The sale proved once more that May, 51, has been right in doggedly upgrading what he calls...