Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Belgian art lovers could breathe easy. The restored Lamb, back in place in Ghent's Cathedral of St. Bavon, looked better than it had for centuries. Long-obscured flowers sprouted from the grass, the grey clouds that once hovered about the holy dove had become a rain-bow-hued nimbus, and a lovingly detailed background landscape emerged clearly from the greenish-brown mist of generations. Everywhere, colors brightened to the rich blues, yellows and reds the Van Eycks had originally painted...
...capita this year v. 6 Ibs. before the war), Brog expects his 1951 sales to top IQSO'S mark of $800,000. The secret of Star Valley's success, Brog thinks, is its altitude and climate, which somehow add to the protein content of the grass in the meadows...
...youth (which lasted for a good many years), Manhattan-born Jo was a true-blue Bohemian expatriate. He lived on the cuff in Paris, plunged into new "movements" like a spaniel into water. He thought nothing of walking from Paris to Lucerne with Leaves of Grass and a Great Dane. He joined the Paris circle of Gertrude Stein ("There was an eternal quality about her"), and later portrayed her as a modern Buddha; in return, Gertrude made "a portrait of me in prose. When she read it aloud, I thought it was wonderful . . . But when I tried to read...
...Stand. Last week Holy Man Bhave, 57, reached New Delhi, took up his stand before a small grass and bamboo hut on the edge of the square cement platform on which Gandhi was cremated. Here five members of the government's planning commission, introduced by Nehru listened as Bhave argued for 1) village wells, instead of huge irrigation projects, 2) village industries, instead of mass factories, 3) increased grain production from small farms. After attending a meeting, India's ascetic President Rajendra Prasad announced that he had given his Bihar estate to Bhave. In the United Provinces, where...
...turned a shoestring into a magazine. A graduate of Amherst, where he founded its literary magazine, Touchstone, he served as a Navy historian in World War II, then went back to his job running Vermont's Historical Society. He decided to start a magazine devoted to regional, grass-roots history, try to make it as readable as a good newspaper. The state put up $5,000 to start Newton's quarterly Vermont Life. Fearfully, Newton ordered 11,000 copies for the first issue; it sold out in three days. So did the second issue...