Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limbourg brothers, breathes the freshness of morning. Embossed with gold, it sparkles with flower-bouquet hues, including the exquisite borage-blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces the text for sunrise prayers, but just in case courtly heads should begin to nod, Artist Jean Pucelle, a Paris illuminator so famed that even Dante sang his praise, spiced it with a troupe of acrobats and a monster king tempting a dog with...
...bitter fight over control of the state party, Happy has been as determined as ever to wreck Wetherby's cause. Although Happycrat Chandler now denies that he is ready to sling a monkey wrench at his own party, his monkeyshines prove otherwise; e.g., he has neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet President Eisenhower on his arrival in Lexington, the jovial Happy pointedly announced that he would have...
...press came away divided. The Scotsman found that, "as advocates of modern American music, they are lacking in discrimination," but the Daily Express called the production "lively and enjoyable." The Daily Mail was jolted, said the company came "to instruct us in a kind of musical entertainment which is almost startlingly novel . . . Their show is slick and professional, yet informal...
...sacrificed in sport, nor should sport become a subterfuge for perverse exhibitionism. Bear this in mind when girls are swimming, skating, etc. The latter sport, called artistic and executed in public, we consider absolutely scandalous, rejectable and forbidden if girls do not wear bloomers reaching below their knees . . . Finally, instruct the faithful that nudism in all its forms is the devilish effort of paganism, that the spirit of the Gospel never will be reconciled to the lying, hypocritical stratagems of the world, the devil and the flesh...
...University of Milan's "European Conference on the Esthetics of Television," delegates from Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, debated for days about TV ground rules, agreed on nothing but a definition of television's role: "To distract, inform and instruct...