Word: contained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than three galleries given over to Shahn's art contain a wide variety of works. There are a number of book illustrations, drawings, Christmas cards--a selection of large graphic works including examples of his "commerical" art, as well as the more familiar paintings done in tempera, water color and gauche. Some of the artists best known works will be missed, such as Handball and Red Stairway, but these deficiencies are compensated for by the inclusion of many unusual and out of the way pieces...
...quarter of the letters that come to Cambridge 38, are headed for the University, a large part of the office's man power is concerned with getting this mail distributed to the various parts of the University. There is one route devoted entirely to the Yard, and several routes contain parts of the Yard within their boundaries. One of these boasts a carrier who greets the students each morning in French, and although he can not be fairly described as the "average" mailman, he is certainly another one of the office's "distinctive features...
Shahn concluded painting could even contain the whole of scholarship and more because it encompassed the wholeness of feeling and thinking of the individual
Eskimos & Bantu. This advance in knowledge of the relationship between diet and heart disease has been based on the highly advertised facts that in most heart-attack victims 1) blood carries an excess of fat compounds called beta-lipoproteins, which contain cholesterol (a fatty alcohol); and 2) the coronary arteries are usually lined with cholesterol. While the body makes some cholesterol of its own, the amount in fatty foods seems to be important. For a while it was thought that there was a significant difference between animal and vegetable fats. The countries where coronary disease is the No. 1 killer...
Back in Hollywood, the producer discovered that the Paramount lot (35 acres) was not big enough to contain his other big scene: the crossing of the Red Sea. He therefore demolished the intervening buildings, joined Paramount and RKO territory, built a 200,000 cubic-foot swimming pool, installed hydraulic equipment that could deluge the area with 360.000 gallons of water in two minutes flat. This scene alone cost more than a million dollars and took 18 months to shoot...