Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official Liberal candidate, 45-year-old bachelor Dr. Gabriel Turbay, had held practically every office except the presidency, could debate and orate in the most admired fashion, but had the political misfortune of being born (in Colombia) of Syrian parents. His detractors called him "el Turco." He had the backing of the powerful Colombian Confederation of Workers...
P.R.B. stood for the "PreRaphaelite Brotherhood." The original Brothers were three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master...
...faculty are men through whom the wisdom of those records should be communicated to other men. Can professors have any greater duty than to teach? I think not. Nere fiddled while Rome burned. Let it not be said of Harvard professors that they did likewise. Sincerely, Gabriel Jackson...
...member of the Bank's twelve-man board of executive directors, the U.S. named little-known Emilio Gabriel Collado, 35, who looks more like a fullback than a banker. A Harvard Ph.D., music lover and longtime economist for the Treasury and the State Department, he was generally regarded as a good choice...
...much amused as I am moved." British Cinema Producer Gabriel Pascal (Caesar & Cleopatra, etc.) wanted Kaye to play Macbeth. The Metropolitan Opera's director, Edward Johnson, proclaimed Danny the perfect Figaro-if only he had an operatic voice...