Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to earn a living as a film maker, Gardner produced one highly successful short on the artist Mark Tobey, but he was unsatisfied with his work. Returning to Harvard, he received a master's degree in anthropology in 1953. Two years later he joined Brew and Marshall in founding the Peabody Film Study Center. Soon afterwards he assisted with "The Hunters" and initiated a graduate seminar on anthropological film making...
...next fall he will take up a post as Musiklehrer at the Folkwangschule in Essen, where he will teach a course in something like philosophy of drumming. He tours everywhere and vacations on the Côte d'Azur. "Why not stay here?" he says. "I earn a good living-a very good living." > PIANIST BUD POWELL, 38, is unquestionably the most important jazz musician in Europe, and he is universally considered the best of the bebop pianists. He left New York in 1959, briefly emerging from the fog that had kept him close to mental hospitals since...
There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...
...days last January C. K. Yang held the world indoor pole-vault record: 16 ft. 3¼ in. Last week at Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed. In the other nine events (100 meters, broad jump, shot-put, high jump, 400 meters, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, javelin, 1,500 meters), he picked up 7,606 more points. His total of 9,121 smashed Rafer Johnson...
Some students of mathematics delight in ridiculing the Jamesian theory of truth on the grounds that the results of mathematical operations are either true or false, regardless of their capacity to give satisfaction. One plus one does not equal three, even if a mathematician could earn a fortune--or tenure--by showing it. James was well aware of this sort of example and dealt with it explicity...