Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coordinating committee's request the City Council has passed a number of resolutions giving top priority to construction of low-rent housing by City agencies. It also has set up a special citizens committee--half of whose members are chosen by the housing convention, and half by the City Manager--to draw up a legislative program to control housing speculation in Cambridge...
...Half of Radcliffe's 22 dormitories have adopted a new Radcliffe Union of Students regulation allowing men in dorm common rooms on an around-the-clock basis...
...Harvard TD. He set up another score with a 26-yd. toss to Sophomore End Pete Varney. Yale's Dowling got that one back with a 5-yd. run, but now the momentum belonged to Harvard as the Crimson defense stiffened, forcing five Yale fumbles in the second half. The big problem was the clock. With less than 2 min. left and the score Yale 29, Harvard 13, Champi went to work. From his own 14, he marched the Crimson 86 yds. in nine plays, hitting Freeman with a 15-yd. bullet that made it 29-21. Time left...
...more than half a century, the spot in the Louvre's Grande Galerie had the aura of a shrine. And for good reason. There hung Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre's-and the world's-most famous painting. When Culture Minister Andre Malraux decided to redecorate the gallery and install in it the museum's collection of French paintings, the first question was what could possibly replace La Giaconda's enigmatic smile? The answer, decided Director Andre Parrot and Curator Michel Laclotte, was the tragic clown figure, Gilles, painted...
...worst horrors of the 20th century derive from politics or science or both. This was not always the case. For a millennium and a half the worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell and the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the pictorial art of Europe. On this eschatological basis, Australian-born Critic Robert Hughes has compiled a catalogue of terrors and delights, drawn mainly from Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch masterworks. Man, it is clear, has found it considerably harder to envisage felicity than its opposite, and so the infernal regions have...