Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regional showing, the U.S. presented only one or two works by each artist, rather than the ten or more works which a jury expects to see before granting top honors. Bent on "making up for the injustice at Venice" last year, the ten-man jury gave the $4,000 grand prize to France's aging (74) modernist master, Fernand Leger (TIME color page, June 22, 1953- see cut), then bypassed 29 works by topflight British Painter Graham Sutherland to hand the next prize of $1,300 to Italian Abstractionist Alberto Magnelli...
...visiting U.S. chess players had a fine time in Moscow-except when they sat down at the chess tables. There the Russian grand masters, who whipped them 20-12 last year in New York, gave them their worst trouncing yet, 25-7. But the U.S. team had considerable consolation. Its own champion, Samuel Reshevsky beat Russia's World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik...
When some Texas grocers complained earlier this year of price-slashing by Safeway Stores Inc., the Justice Department assigned five antitrust investigators to look into the chain's operations. The outcome: a federal grand jury in Fort Worth last week charged that Safeway's price cuts (10 Ib. bag of sugar: 69?) were an attempt to monopolize the retail grocery business in Texas and New Mexico cities...
...have the arts taken such a dismal turn? Graves has no doubt of the answer: vainglorious man is paying the penalty for having scorned the Goddess of All Things. All poetry worthy of the name, he believes, is in essence a variation on "the single grand theme"-man's birth through woman, and his love and death in the arms of woman. Modern poets have forgotten this, Graves argues, because the male revolt against female supremacy is long since an accomplished fact. The Greeks started the rot by taking the myths of their predecessors, the Pelasgians and others...
Although they obviously were chagrined to lose that 116-year-old Grand Challenge Cup, the Russians remembered their political protocol-even when they made their last-minute explanations. "Our boats-we think they came too late," said Manager Vladimir Muchmenko. "No, not too late, but late enough. But we would not blame the strikers, only the situation...