Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High point of the show is a forlorn ballad sung by Lanky Blonde Ellen Hanley about a wan, straight-haired maiden who attends a meeting of an antique music society and trustingly goes home with a base-hearted fellow enthusiast...
...treaty creating the six-nation Common European Market five stiff rules banning all agreements to prevent, restrict, or distort competition within the Common Market. Like Britain's Chancellor Harold Macmillan, he is a devoted believer in free trade among all nations. This does not make him an enthusiast for the Common Market. He fears it may become "an island of protectionism in Europe" because of pressure from the weaker economic members, especially France. "Why should I want to throw out controls and to abolish tariffs on a national level only to reintroduce them on an international...
India got its independence and was partitioned into a secular new India and a Moslem Pakistan amid a Hindu-Moslem blood bath, Moslem Suhrawardy stayed anchored in India's Calcutta, offended because he was offered what he considered a lowly Cabinet job in Pakistan. No enthusiast for a theocratic Moslem state anyway, he made his home in India until India's tax collectors clamped down on his business, rugs and 1947 Buick...
Young Robert became a confirmed art enthusiast while he was still at Yale ('13), steered his parents' tastes toward Italian primitives (works by Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo are among the collection's current high points), began collecting hand-painted illuminations and drawings. In 1929 he proved his taste with a birthday present to his father: Botticelli's exquisite, miniature Annunciation...
...Beehive's director, Dr. G. Van der Wai, an unabashed enthusiast for things made in the U.S.A., turned naturally to the U.S. for an architect. Breuer responded with a clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there...