Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrate the rediscovery of Caravaggio's Ecce Homo, Genoa borrowed Cigoli's version from Florence and displayed the two together. Visitors thronging the gallery at the rate of a thousand a day, agreed with Expert Roberto Longhi that Caravaggio's version is one of his "most moving works," and much superior to Cigoli's canvas. Caravaggio had at last won the competition he lost to his rival Cigoli 3½ centuries...
...stag dinners at which the main course was chukar, a species of south Asian partridge. Among the guests was Columbia University's Football Coach Lou Little, who first met Dwight Eisenhower in 1924 when Ike was coach of the Fort Meade, Md. football team. Little's expert sizing-up of the President: "Excellent physical condition, looked well and acted like an athlete...
...metals will tend to firm up prices, help keep U.S. mines and smelters in operation and tone down producers' demands for more tariff protection, since stockpile additions are "to be purchased, wherever possible, from domestic producers." For these reasons, the new policy was wryly described by one Washington expert as "a WPA for the metals industry...
...Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise and the inadvertent complicity of the husband. Czarist censors banned this story as immoral, which drove Chekhov to retort: "I have formed ... a Society for the Promotion of Cuckoldry, [and] have been elected president...
Kennan, an expert on foreign policy, is now associated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His term as ambassador ended in 1952 when Russia demanded his recall after he had criticized the Soviet Government...