Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Elder proposed last week that Harvard lead a "large concert" of universities in pushing for legislative action to remove the disclaimer affidavit provision from the NDEA. At the same time, Senator Kennedy emphasized the need for effective protest at the student level. The Student Council has created a committee to study the question, and, although the exact purposes and plans of this group are unclear, the move is a step in the right direction...
Reigning spirit of the museum, as of the Northern Renaissance, is Pieter Brueghel the Elder, represented by two paintings: Mad Margaret and Flemish Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand...
...constant pain from a kidney disease. Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank. He had fought well in Flanders against the French, and William Pitt the Elder recommended the stiff-necked young major general to run the siege of Quebec, France's major stronghold in America...
...British accents, Masai Tribesman Geoffrey M. Ole Maloy reported that his hunting trophies include four cobras, two antelopes and a rhinoceros. But his tribal status, Maloy explained politely, is still not high. He has never taken part in the Eunoto ceremony (killing a lion in order to become an elder). "My father does not wish that I participate. Although he killed a lion in his youth, he has become somewhat involved in Western civilization...
...There was no use two bulls going in there and locking horns," explained the farm-raised Fullmer, who does not let his profession prevent him from being an elder in the Mormon Church...