Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people are free." He remembered how, when General Lucius Clay first told him that the U.S. would supply Berlin by air, he had remarked to the general's aide: "It's wonderful to hear Clay's determination, but I don't believe it can be done." Said the aide: "I don't believe it, either...
Christ & Picasso. The show centered on nine paintings of the Crucifixion, done in oils on thin paper. Rose had long been regarded as a decorative, eclectic artist with a low emotional octane rating: overnight his new pictures established him as a force in British painting. Said London's Art News & Review: "This remarkable series of paintings is not romantic or expressionist, as are most Crucifixions, but may rather be described as liturgical, ritualistic, learned and arcane . . . executed with great resource and command of the medium." Describing Rose as "an artist who believes in both Christ and Picasso," the Catholic...
Yale's campus, but, said he, "we shall permit no hysterical witch hunt. We shall not impose an oath of loyalty upon our faculty." Yale, he said, had abandoned trying to "enforce conformity by oath over 125 years ago." Despite this "lack of control," added Seymour, "we have done pretty well in service to 'church and civil state...
...that happen to sharp-eyed researchers. Dr. Symeonidis had fed 20 milligrams of progesterone, an ovarian hormone, to 25 pregnant rats. His purpose was to cause cancer; instead, the rats developed eclampsia. It was the first time the disease had been produced experimentally in animals. What Dr. Symeonidis had done was to throw the hormonal balance out of whack. Microscopic slides showed that the rats had suffered changes in liver, kidneys and placenta that human eclampsia patients suffer...
...Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...