Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fetish of Atomic Secrecy," by Paul Block Jr., publisher of the Toledo Blade, in the August Harper's: "But if men within the atomic program . . . are trying to hurdle the secrecy wall in this manner and dump some of their problems in the public's lap, they are merely taking a leaf from the military's book...
...Rockefeller Foundation reached out last week to drop some more financial encouragement in the lap of music and ballet. The beneficiary: Manhattan's City Center, which got $200,000 to commission and design new works. Managing Director Lincoln Kirstein will divide the money between the City Opera and his now world-famed City Ballet. It was the foundation's second pat on the nation's musical back in three months. This spring, it gave $400,000 to the Louisville Orchestra (TIME, April 27) to commission and record new instrumental music...
...helped to collect 60-odd paintings and bring them to Granada for a show. By poking into old monasteries and crumbling castles, Art Lover Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show: a solemn Santa Lucia and a prayerful, intent Fray Geronimo Perez...
Duke's William T. ("Lap") Laprade, 69, who started teaching history at Durham's little Trinity College in 1909, went right on without turning a hair as the college vanished in a cloud of tobacco smoke and emerged as one of the richest and most gothic of U.S. universities. A specialist on the 18th century, Lap paced about his platform, waved his arms, laced his lectures with gossipy bulletins about the scandals and scoundrels, the brains and bunglers, of the courts and cabinets of yore. Pretending never to be satisfied ("Well," he would say of the best...
...display her aquabatics in an Arkansas swimming hole and in a swimming pool in a French chateau. She also swims the English Channel with the encouragement of a French champagne salesman (Fernando Lamas), who helpfully dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers among the coral with Tom and Jerry, the animated-cartoon cat and mouse...