Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program also included Puccini's Gloria Mass, a work written in the composer's student days. The music was decidedly uneven, containing fine lyrical passages such as a strong theme for unison chcorus at the words "et unam sanctam." Much of the music, however, sounded like an Italian version of second-rate Schubert. It was the piece's first and probably last Boston performance...
...down by Assistant Attorney General Harris J. Booras on the grounds that "there is not the remotest evidence that Harvard has reached its decision in any manner other than honesty, faithfully, and for what it considers to be the best interests of the Arboretum." Then, in the case Ames et al v. Attorney General, filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the petitioners sought a writ of mandamus to force the Attorney General to use his name in a test suit. On February 11, 1955, the court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to force the Attorney General...
...months of bitter bickering, the Lake County (Fla.) school board finally closed the case of Fruit Picker Allan Platt's five school-age, part-Indian children who were falsely declared to be Negroes and were thus denied the right to attend a white school (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). Since the board found that it could not legally prove that the Platts are Negroes, it decided not to appeal the decision of a circuit-court judge allowing the Platts to attend whatever white schools in Florida they choose. ¶ The Regents of the University of the State...
...Great Art that is-can be the most lucrative investment in the world." Thus FORTUNE in its current issue sums up the booming art markets of Paris, London and Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 10 et seq.). In the past decade, favored French impressionists have quadrupled in value and the hottest moderns have increased ten times; old masters are now almost beyond price. In all, sales this year in auction rooms and galleries will reach $65 million. Can the bull market keep up the pace? Says FORTUNE: "The long-range answer seems to be that it can-and probably will." More...
...painting. When the really big collectors decide to show their hands, the price can go over the $100.000 mark, as it did when France's Mme. Jean Walter paid $113.000 to outbid Swiss Gun Manufacturer Emil Buhrle for a Cezanne still life, Pommes et Biscuits, at the 1952 Gabriel Cognacq sale in Paris...