Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late-night runs from close-to-the-border cities in Missouri and Texas. Artfully dodging police prowl cars, they slipped into Tulsa and Oklahoma City bringing bootlegged Scotch at $7 a fifth, vodka at $5.50 and gin at $5. Admiring the tinsel, feeling the cold, buying the whisky (in gift decanters), Oklahomans knew that the Christmas season was in full swing...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this week took the wrappings off a handsome Christmas gift to itself: two superbly hand-illuminated medieval Books of Hours, almost as fresh as the day they were painted, which experts value together at $250,000. One, made to order sometime before 1413 for Jean, Duke of Berry and Prince of France, includes 94 full-page illustrations which the Met terms "a whole gallery of medieval paintings." The other, a minute volume (2⅜ in. by 3½ in.), was made to fit a queen's hand, probably that of Jeanne...
...Rothschild's collection in 1954 by James J. Rorimer, then curator of The Cloisters, a Met outpost. For Medievalist Rorimer the two books represented "an extraordinary opportunity for supplementing The Cloister's collections." Rorimer, now the Met's director, used income from a $10 million gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to purchase the books, waited until this year's Christmas season to announce the acquisition...
...least one professorship was soon assured by a $500,000 gift from Thomas W. Lamont '92. Conant continued to explain his idea in letters and pamphlets sent to alumni...
...regulated with almost civil-service precision, saintly works are not enough, and miracles are not required. What seems to be necessary is a sort of rapport with the time's intellectual torments, a capacity for drilling and painfully hitting some universal nerve. That, apparently, is the special gift of Simone Weil, a Frenchwoman who died in 1943 at 34 and who has since been informally canonized as a "saint of the churchless," a "patron of the undecided...