Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence was a $500,000 display of jewels looted from the House of Hesse's Kronberg Castle (TIME, June 17, 1946). In Frankfurt last week an eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years...
...display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
London audiences last week thought so too. But the Daily Mail's Critic Ralph Hill thought he saw a fundamental catch in it. Wrote he: "Where does this display lead to? Nowhere, as I see it. To substitute a mouth organ supported by a piano for an oboe and strings or for the delicate orchestral palette of Debussy may pass as a stunt, but musically it is a fantastic distortion of values. In short, the proper place for Mr. Adler's skillful and artistic manipulation of a mouth organ is the music hall .and not the hall...
...forms that Grecian goldsmiths once made. Assembled by Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery, the museum show was the biggest and best exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine art ever seen in the U.S. A fair share of all the Byzantine art left in the world was on display...
Tickets for all events of the three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" will be distributed today between 2 and 5 o'clock at the Music Building to Harvard and Radcliffe students, the Music Department announced yesterday. Students need only display their Burear's cards to receive free tickets, one to a customer...