Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fugitive-and other-poetry reading will mark this weekend at the Summer School as local poets gather in Lamont Forum Room tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. to pay tribute to Fugitive John Crowe Ransom in his 70th year. Ransom himself will give a public reading tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...Milanese have set out to cure their sense of inferiority in matters of art. Last week they had on display the most impressive array of Lombard art ever assembled. The exhibit, which took four years to gather, includes frescoes lifted bodily from the walls of churches, oils on loan from all over Europe and the U.S., marble sculptures lowered from the peaks of the Duomo for their first close-up inspection in more than 400 years. An imposing array of 501 objects spread out over 22 rooms of Milan's solemn Palazzo Reale, viewed by more than a thousand...
...Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand and gravel. In the villages of the Panhandle in the southeast, the red salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun out to gather wild celery and Indian rhubarb, came home for feasts of delicate herring eggs (cooked in seal oil, garnished with soy sauce). Spring yawned in the lower valleys, and out popped the arctic poppy, shooting star, lupine and forget-me-not (Alaska's official flower). And now, after a long winter...
...keep prices from spiraling too fast, a handful of the economists argued for an agency, such as a permanent Wage and Price Commission, which would gather accurate statistics, compute the effects of wage-price increases, and formulate standards for government policy. Economists such as the University of Chicago's Albert E. Rees would also like to see the Government itself put an end to price-boosting devices, e.g., farm price supports, tariffs and import quotas that shelter inefficient domestic producers. Said he: "If the Government is to condemn private enterprise for using rigid prices, it should itself cease being...
Despite this disparity of motives, they make tender and tempestuous lovers. With scarcely a lapse of taste or skill. Author Koningsberger captures the many-splendored hues of fleshly delight. His lovers' neopaganism is sunny, not steamy. But the clouds soon gather. Toni, who is an egghead, likes to air his notions on Hegel, physics, films, money and 20th-century man. Catherine would rather listen to a record of Oh! Look at Me Now! five times...