Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...
Paul Striker outpointed Frank Davidson, 8 to 1, in the 137-pound class for a decision to bring the Crimson edge to 11 to 0. In the 147-pound section, exfreshman Crimson captain Joe Noble picked up five points on a forfeit by Indian Jim Young...
...subject of his talk was "Mithras in Monreale?" Mithras was a sun deity of Indian origin. But Panofsky said he was "not concerned with Mithras so much as the spirit of the Middle Ages...
...seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands of marigolds flung about his neck by impulsive Indian schoolgirls. He was still smiling a day later when the smoke of a large firecracker, exploding with the roar of a bomb at one of the rallies, at last cleared away...
...eight hotels. Others soon followed as Oberoi improved his hotels. He put modern toilet facilities in every room, central heating and air conditioning into the Grand Hotel in Calcutta and the Imperial in New Delhi, Swiss, German and French managers-bone-bred hoteliers-into most of his hotels. By Indian standards his hotels are excellent, but by U.S. standards they lag, and Oberoi knows it, hopes the prospective tie to Pan Am's Intercontinental will help...