Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been four years since the heyday of Grady Watts, who once scored 99 points in a single season and 11 in one game--both Harvard records--and there hasn't been a really good attack man since. Monro is counting on Ted Leary, last year's top scorer with 12 goals and 14 assists, and juniors Keith Hutchinson and Steve Neubert. Dick Oehrie, a sophomore, has a good shot at the crease attack position...
...aggravated assault by 3%. Crime of all types increased by 8% in U.S. suburbs. Perhaps the most revealing figure came from William F. Owens, an American Bankers Association insurance expert, who estimated that 850 bank holdups were staged last year v. 609 in 1932, the heisty heyday of the John Dillinger breed of gunman. Most bank jobs today, said Owens, are pulled by amateurs, who figure the bank is the place to go-with a gun-when they need cash "for medical bills, vacations, Christmas gifts, tuition payments" -even for payments on a bank loan...
...immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed to see only the pursuit of Raphael's ideal of beauty...
History as Machine Gun. Larry Rivers, 42, is the closest thing to an academic 19th century historical painter that the avant-garde can boast. Back in the heyday of abstract expressionism, he did a takeoff on Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, attempting, as he put it, "to paint its drama, pageantry, spectacle and absurdity without political bias...
...abstract expressionism received its first definitive testing on the auction block. The creative heyday of the movement is over; the question was, how much of it survives in cash values Of 20 paintings, 13 belonged to Robert C. Scull a New York taxicab-fleet owner who has embraced pop art. His purpose m selling was to bankroll his new foundaion to support younger artists with-dealers. "Let the oldtimers pay for tomorrow," he said. They did. Top price -$37,000-was for Willem de Kooning's 1955 Police Gazette; Barnett Newman's Tundra, consisting of a red horizontal...