Word: giordano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-fuzz had gone out of this month's Watts Festival, the annual community commemoration of the 1965 riots that were the first of the recent major race riots; everybody in Southern California was at the beach. "We've had a pretty good summer," said Patrolman Nick Giordano as he handed out an occasional ticket for jaywalking in Manhattan's Union Square. "Quiet. I only hope to God it will stay that...
...brushwork is highly personalized and uninhibited. The earthy zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
...alone, my slanderers are hundreds," he said. "Naturally I will never succeed in defending myself, and I cannot know in advance of what I will be accused. If they say I am a supporter of Copernicus' solar system, and that I set the fire that burned Giordano Bruno at the stake, I will not be very surprised...
Rare Moment. At week's end the Czech poet Miroslav Holub compared the Soviet attitude to that of the medieval Popes who denied that the earth moves around the sun. "This country is in the position of Giordano Bruno,"* wrote Holub in the journal Literárni Listy. "We are supposed to deny everything that we know to be true. We are to admit that the sun is revolving, and that we are facing a counter-revolution." Czechoslovakia is obviously unwilling to do so. "Rarely are there moments," concluded Holub, "when a people is as certain...
Some evidence against the stepping-stone argument came a fortnight ago from Giordano's own Bureau of Narcotics. The number of known hard-drug addicts, said Giordano, increased from 59,720 in 1966 to 62,045 at the end of 1967, or 3%. Moreover, the number of new addicts detected rose only from 6,047 to 6,417. If only one in a hundred of the potheads had switched to heroin last year, the increase would have been far greater...