Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backwards Latin. Rippling across the ivory everywhere are images that summarize early theology. The tusks lend the cross an undulating vitality, repeated in the budding motif of the Garden of Eden's Tree of Life, then supposed to be the material of the original cross of Calvary. Taking these themes, the cross dramatically telescopes time, showing Adam and Eve, the primordial parents of man, at the base of the cross as they are at last raised from the dead by the Crucifixion. They seem to emerge from their eons-long sleep in a mood of joyous bewilderment as they...
...triggered the world's first nuclear chain reaction and thus made possible the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. A Hungarian-Jewish refugee from Hitler's persecutions, Szilard foresaw as early as 1939 the possibility of uranium bombs, persuaded Einstein to lend his famous name to a letter to President Roosevelt in which he pointed out the danger that Germany might beat the U.S. to such a weapon; once his advice was heeded and the bomb developed, Szilard looked with regret upon the monster he had helped unleash, worked incessantly for disarmament and peaceful...
Greece and Turkey came to hurl acrimonious charges and countercharges about the Cyprus conflict, finally agreed to a mild compromise by which NATO's outgoing Secretary-General Dirk Stikker was asked to lend a hand in ending the dispute...
Graham Sutherland began his career as an engineer, and underneath his soft brushwork there still are ruled lines that lend a cubistic solidity to his work. He has designed posters, ceramics, a tapestry for the new Coventry cathedral. His portraits of Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook are masterful interpretations of character. But when Sutherland works impulsively, he always returns to surreal scenes of natural forms, 25 of which went on view last week in Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co. galleries...
...Friends of Harvard Rowing announced yesterday that they will lend their support to sending the undefeated Crimson JV heavyweight crew to Henley on Thames in July in quest of the Grand Challenge...