Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beechcraft Bonanza air taxi en route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to East Hampton, L.I., crashed as it was attempting to land after a door came open on take-off (four dead−including Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the State Department chief of protocol). As a possible reason for the crash, CAB suggested that the roar of air rushing past the open door space may have panicked one of the three women passengers into interfering with the controls or the pilot...
...this week, after almost three years in Africa, is en route to Tokyo, to become chief of the TIME-LIFE bureau...
Hyppolyte Petitjean's attempt to come to terms with academic subject matter using a late Impressionist but revealing "En arcadie" Archaic figures, who might have come from Poussin, disport themselves in structurally significant positions, but the light that diffuses over them breaks up into the pointillism of Seurat. Petitjean's attempt produces something of a curiosity - it is an if the lightheaded figures form Poussin's "Baccahanale" (in Mr. Chrysler's collection) had been suddenly calmed by a curious atmosphere they did not understand, the atmosphere of "La Grande Jatte...
...CHRISTMAS IN MANHATTAN: Fir trees covered in lights are ranged all along Park Avenue; the big stores have flesh and blood Santa Clauses at their en trances; and the counters are besieged by customers buying presents for one anoth er. You can't distinguish where shrewd commercial advertising ends and where emotional spirituality begins...
...find himself the director of 20 instrumentalist, eight of them flautists. Now, at any rate, the orchestra has at least one of everything and a respectable number of string players. Unfortunately, most of them should have never have been let in sight of any orchestra: the woodwinds, en bloc, refused to stay in tune with the rest of the orchestra; not that one was often aware of this: for the brass refused to let anyone even hear the rest of the orchestra. The tubist, who punctuated the evening with a succession of singular sounds, must be singled out for special...