Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only when it came to the great scowling Pantocrator (Christ) who dominates the central dome did Daphni's artists desert their classic inspiration, revert to traditional Eastern models. As if they feared that the elegant style of their other mosaics would appear unseemly, Daphni's artists made the Pantocrator one of the most grim and overpowering figures to be found in all Byzantine art. Far from offending, Daphni's Pantocrator today often strikes critics as a welcome antidote to sentimentalized and saccharine images of Christ...
...serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
...Sabre struck the DC-7. its right wing slashing through the right wing of the airliner. United's pilot barked: "U.A.L. 736! Mid-air collision over Las Vegas! 736!" From the jet came the cry: "Mayday!"* Then, trailing smoke and fire, the planes dropped and crashed to the desert floor of wild flowers. All 47 in the DC-7, the two officers in the F-100F were killed...
...smoke-hazed dining room of Las Vegas' Desert Inn last week, the supply of ready money would have staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh...
...more belligerent celebrities in the crowd. "What am I bid for Elsa Maxwell? This would be a good buy for Walter Winchell. How about Elsa, Walter?" But feuding Walter Winchell (see TV & RADIO) had quietly retired to his room, pleading ill health. Highest bidder of the evening: Desert Inn Owner Morris Kleinman, who bought California's Ken Venturi for $24,000. Right behind him came Crooner Frankie Laine, who got Three-Time Winner Gene Littler for the fourth time...