Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Naomi Jacob, 80, British novelist and lifelong feminist, veteran of suffragette picket lines, author of more than 40 novels (Jacob Ussher, Four Generations), many of which depict courageous heroines struggling against hard-drinking, miserly husbands; of a heart attack; in Sirmione, Italy...
...that Ruth St. Denis is 87 years old, that Ted Shawn is 72. Yet the dance they performed, choreographed by Shawn, taken from a poem by St. Denis, was in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. It was the latest of countless new works that have been premiered at Jacob's Pillow, the sylvan retreat in Massachusetts' rolling Berkshire hills that Ted Shawn founded 31 years...
...feminine; it was like music with nothing but strings and woodwinds. It needed the brasses and drums of the male role." So in 1933 he set out to supply them. Picking his first all-male crew for sheer muscle-they included football players, trackmen, gymnasts-he installed them at Jacob's Pillow, a rundown, 150-acre 18th century farmstead he had bought three years before. There each summer he honed the troupe with dancing all morning, farm chores all afternoon. "I wanted to see," he says, "if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could...
...Jacob D. Fuchsberg specifically mentioned Harvard as one of the schools which "recognizes the problem as serious" but "hasn't known where to turn" for a solution...
...ferreting out how well the student has assimilated a broad spectrum of knowledge. One question from the sample testing asked the student to identify a quotation "In a flash it came upon me that there was a reason for advancing poverty with advancing wealth . . ." as coming from John Jacob Astor, William Jennings Bryan, Thorstein Veblen, Lincoln Steffens or Henry George. The answer is Henry George, and research showed that more than half the students in the top one-fifth of those taking the test got it right, compared with only 8% of those in the bottom one-fifth...