Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, the son of a St. Petersburg lathe operator seemed no art lover, paused only briefly before Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre. But he could not get enough answers when shown the fuselage of the British-French supersonic transport, Concorde, or a frog's heart preserved-alive-in a Grenoble laboratory. Whether reviewing an honor guard of skiing policemen in the Alps or placing a paternal arm around a hesitant American correspondent, Kosygin, 62, was always a relaxed guest. "If we are all together, there will be no more wars," he shouted...
...attempting to build a national constituency consisting largely of intellectuals, and the visit to Harvard is part of the plan. For three days he talked to students, answered questions, and presented himself as an intellectual. In one lecture, for example, he referred to everyone from Churchill to Leonardo da Vinci, and quoted from Aristotle, Arnold Toynbee, The Federalist Papers, and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure...
IMAGE OF THE UNIVERSE by Richard Mdanathan. 192 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. Yet another ramble through the notebooks of that Renaissance man-architect, painter, astronomer, botanist, engineer, philosopher, sculptor, military tactician-Leonardo da Vinci...
...already lived 18 years longer than Leonardo da Vinci and 22 years longer than Rembrandt. He bears the best-known name in 20th century art; yet he seeks an anonymous existence. At the age of 85, he amuses himself by taking masterpieces of the past, pulling them apart and reassembling them in his own style. Having invented or conquered style after style, he continues attacking the canvas with bull-like strength as if he were ready to invent yet another. He is, of course, Pablo Picasso, and last week in Paris he received homage by way of a vast retrospective...
...lumbering C-1235 transports and darting helicopters brought in hundreds of tons of supplies from 175-mm. artillery shells to plastic bottles of mosquito repellent. DePuy soon concluded that Attleboro had caught the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese massing for an attack on the Special Forces camp of Suoi Da, perhaps as the opening of a major winter offensive. True or not, the Reds kept fighting as though it were; the biggest battle was still to come...