Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Gallery's Italian Renaissance collection has always been topnotch, except for high-Renaissance (16th and 17th century) art. The Kress gifts will correct that weakness as well, if only by the announced addition of three masterpieces, by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, from the golden age of Venice. Zurbaran's big convent picture will give new weight to the Spanish section, and Watteau's charming Ceres will add a lift to the 18th century French collection...
...trilogy to let these two books stand by themselves, though he plans to "follow the fortunes of the characters through the whole of their war" in later novels. Men at Arms began with Crouchback reading of the Russo-German alliance and rushing in "jubilation" to join a correct, old-line regiment. "A decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, when the Enemy was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off; the modern age in arms...
...Reader Needham wins his bet (score at press time: one letter), it will not be because he is correct. TIME's poppy is the tamed Eschscholtzia californica...
After the opening show, the network, sponsor (Revlon) and producer of The $64,000 Question were swamped with phone calls and telegrams by eager people who thought they might be able to give enough correct answers to come home with at least a Cadillac. More swamped, however, was O'Hanlon, whose doorbell and telephone never seemed to stop ringing. Free advice was being handed out lavishly. Some urged him to shoot the $8,000; others pleaded with him to be satisfied with what...
...were returned, 85 coming from members of the Class of 1930. The attempt was abandoned for the time, with the CRIMSON commenting that it "remains firm in the belief that the custom of 'eating around' is on the decline. The proposal which it backed may not have been the correct one, it is obviously not the popular one." The undergraduate was set in his way and couldn't be made to engage in civilized eating...