Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently curators at the Museum of Fine Arts dipped into dusty storage areas and emerged with two gem-like shows now on view...
...respected for having the courage to ignore initial poor reviews (including your own) and recognize the cinematic gem that is Bonnie and Clyde [Dec. 8|. Today's movie audience, exposed to such a larger number of movies than ever before, is more sophisticated than Critic Emeritus Bosley Crowther thinks. No longer do bad guys all wear black hats and act mean-life is not that simple...
Died. Joseph Kesselring, 65, author of twelve ephemeral plays and one Broadway gem, Arsenic and Old Lace; of a heart ailment; in Kingston...
...happiest and soon to be the strongest nation on earth. Parson Weems's biography beatified Washington; Fourth of July speeches were gravely heeded. Even arithmetic books instilled patriotism. Symbols burgeoned-Old Glory, the Liberty Bell, the bald eagle, Uncle Sam. Everyone memorized militant songs, such as Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean ("Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue"). And McGuffey readers-hardly a child alive could not recite Longfellow's verse...
...There just aren't any maharajahs left," sighed New York Diamond Merchant Harry Winston, 71. "I'm afraid there isn't a market for enormous diamonds." Winston has bought the 601-carat Lesotho diamond, the seventh-largest gem-quality diamond known, which was found last May on a tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said...