Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evening Hymn, done in 1835, was Washington Allston's personal hymn to Italy, where he had spent happy years as a student. The mature Allston wasted most of his talent on huge Biblical canvases hopelessly designed to shake the world, e.g., his unfinished Belshazzar's Feast. Trapped in the cheerful, chilly Boston of the transcendentalists, the wellsprings of his art running dry, he looked back longingly to the Mediterranean world that he had always been too much of a Puritan to grasp...
Flashing the old indomitable smile that is rarely seen in the papers these days, former Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland showed up at an apolitical love feast in Los Angeles, was embraced by none other than California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who landslid over Knowland in the state's 1958 gubernatorial race. White House Hopeful Brown was there to pass out awards on behalf of the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He handed Bill Knowland, now the editorial panjandrum of the Knowland family-owned Oakland Tribune (circ. 208,198), the first-place plaque...
...Costa Rica's ex-President Figueres presses for commodity price stabilization that will free economies and government treasuries from drastic swoops that bring "feast or famine for our people, and more famine than feast...
...million in fiscal 1958 to $805 million in 1959; in fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More important, Love has shown his fellow textilemen that high productivity and low prices can whip the industry's age-old feast-or-famine cycle. U.S. textilemen this year expect to pile another 5% sales gain on last year's increase of 12%. Right now, unfilled orders outrun inventories by a healthy 5 to 1; even so, wholesale prices are 8% below the 1947-49 average...
...Santiago Martinez visited Chimpay, gave the Indians real instruction in Judaism, and told them that the children of Israel had completed their millennium of suffering for having forsaken Jehovah and were soon to return to Zion to await the coming of the Messiah. The Araucanians observed Jewish dietary laws, feast and fast days, separated men and women for worship, even broke down their tribe into classic biblical castes. They elected a leader, one Luis Bravo, who met biblical qualifications: strong, healthy, married, with at least one son. And though they did not call themselves Jews, but members of the "Israel...