Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, meeting in Philadelphia, the A.M.A. gave Dr. Clark a gold medal and named him "General Practitioner of the Year...
Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...
...luxury and craftsmanship of the past, there are few remnants of Korean art. Out of the tombs have come such works as the stoneware Mounted Horseman, wearing a noble's peaked cap and leather armor of the 5th-6th century. Even more impressive is the antlerlike gold crown ornamented with jade found in a tomb of the Old Silla dynasty (57 B.C.-668 A.D.), whose hardy kingdom in Southeast Korea gradually extended its sway over the whole peninsula. With its similarity to the animal motifs of the Scythians, it suggests that early Koreans had more in common with...
Secret Color. Buddhism, imported from China, flourished in the arts, creating prototypes of figures in gold and bronze that were later imitated by Japanese craftsmen. But it was in ceramics that Korea led the Oriental world. Even Chinese connoisseurs of the Sung dynasty praised the artistry and craft of Korean potters of the Koryo dynasty (A.D. 918-1392), proclaiming: "The secret color of Koryo is first under Heaven...
University scientists plan to apply the amplifier to the radio telescope as soon as possible. "The job cannot be done immediately," Gold added, "because of the complicated and experimental nature of the device...