Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommendation of the Director of the Adkins Garden and Research laboratory at Soledad, Cuba, the Corporation voted to cease financial support the lab and to end all scientific work in Cuba. Duncan Clement, Adkins Director, advised the University to take this action because of "increased certainty" in Cuba...
...Macmillan last week when he conveyed to her his Cabinet's advice that she should carry out her royal visit to Ghana, despite a spate of bombing incidents in Accra protesting the rule of Kwame Nkrumah. Fearful of the Queen's safety, Macmillan dispatched Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys once again to Ghana to see if the outbursts of violence warranted the cancellation of the visit. After satisfying himself that the Queen would be safe, Sandys flew back to London with the go-ahead signal...
...Kennedy, Daniel J. Langton, James Wright, established poets like Donald Davie, Howard Nemerov, Louis Simpson are well represented by well-wrought verse. One newsworthy item (in Evergreen Review): a strong anti-oppression poem by jailed Soviet Poet Yesenin-Volpin, natural son of the Yesenin who was one of Isadora Duncan's lovers...
...coming-out party in London's smart Quaglino's restaurant, Celia Sandys, 17, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, was honored by a visit from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally...
...David Duncan's book is not to be read as art criticism; his obvious fondness for his friend blots out any fault the painter might have. But this fondness gives the book an extra dimension. Picasso's Picassos are not just paintings but extraordinary human documents. Duncan's admiring text may not illuminate Picasso's genius, but it does light up the man-simple, passionate, earthy, and, at the age of 80, head over heels in love again...