Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes when he put on the trick spectacles at the prizewinning display of Argentina's Julio Le Pare, 38, at the Venice Biennale last summer. In front of the eyeholes loomed shiny flaps of metal reflecting his own disbelief. Argentine military brass, puffed out with pride that their countryman had won the Grand Prix for painting, deflated with astonishment when they stood in front of one of Le Fare's "paintings"-a long sheet of shiny metal that captured their own images, then freakishly elongated them as they pressed the foot pedal that set the sheet in motion...
...Vern Countryman, professor of Law; Gilbert B. Gale '69, chairman of the committee; and possibly representatives of the five groups will meet with Pusey next week to discuss the letter. Countryman is chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Abolish HUAC...
...narrator, oddly enough, is a young Englishman named Manning who is working on his thesis at Moscow University. He is hired as an interpreter by a countryman, Gordon Proctor-Gould, who bears a striking resemblance to Greville Wynne, the British salesman who in fact ran secrets for Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky before the Soviets nabbed them both in 1962. Proctor-Gould may or may not be in the intelligence game himself (he, of course, denies it), but Frayn, a satiric columnist for the London Observer, cannot resist giving him a bizarre cover job: he recruits everyday Russians for appearance...
...smiling, Greece's King Constantine, 26, had a casual rationale for being that far behind: "I haven't been training in Lightnings for the last two years." Besides, the King of the Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present? "A state secret," said the King...
...16th annual Prades Festival, and the players, members of a music society that Casals founded in 1919, had made the long journey as a tribute to their countryman, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on December 29. In honor of the anniversary, this year's festival has one of the most stellar lineups in its history. Violinists Alexander Schneider and David Oistrakh returned after several years' absence; Pianists Rudolf Serkin, Wilhelm Kempff and Julius Katchen took leave from crowded schedules to perform. It was a sentimental journey tinged with apprehension. "When a musician is almost 90," explained Katchen...