Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the "universal man," at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But he was almost as well known for his inability to see his projects through. "Alas," cried Pope Leo X, "Leonardo will never finish anything. He thinks of the end even before he has begun." As a result, while some 6,000 pages of his notes and casual sketches survive, there are only 15 known Leonardo paintings-and some experts place the number as low as nine. All but one of his paintings hang...
...comes for the historian to get the sense of what life was like for the British between and during the two big wars, he will be better off turning to fiction than to journalism. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World War II. Jenkins...
...than sentiment keeps alive another of the Bulletin's traditions--shoestring financing. Socking 17,000 subscribers seven dollars yearly for a subscription, the Bulletin still has only $160,000 to pay all the cost of the 17 issues published each year. With its tiny staff, the magazine manages to finish in the black most years. 1966-67 won't be one of them though; the Bulletin had to settle a substantial libel suit for calling a Hollywood movie director a "Stalinist type...
Shaw broke Jim Baker's mile record earlier this year by running 4:15.4 in slow Briggs Cage. He too is good at longer distances. He usually runs the two-mile, but last week at Yale he had to drop out before the finish...
Harvard remains undefeated in Ivy squash this season, and with only the Yale match remaining, it has cinched its eighth first-place finish in the last nine years. Yesterday's victory over Princeton also revenges the 5-4 loss to the Tigers last season, which spoiled the Crimson's perfect season and forced it to share the Ivy title with Penn...