Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oaths on Iron. Benin sculpture is more naturalistic than most African totems, as evidenced in 30 of the original bronze plaques lent by the British Museum and currently on view at the University of Pennsylvania's museum. The bronze surfaces are intricately designed for the play of light-wound copper bracelets, brazen armor and engraved rosette backgrounds, which set off the bold, stubby torsos of the figures. Most remarkable was the high level of skill displayed in employing the complex craft of casting with the lost-wax process. Descendants of the great smiths of Benin still revere Igue-igha...
...point home. And the point is so hackneyed that I found myself trying to read between the lines, sure that there was some subtle message I was missing. Unfortunately, there wasn't. Sometimes good acting can save a poor piece of work, but in this case overacting just lent to the production's problems...
...when he was ministering to a Congregational Church in California. Undiscouraged when his youthful charge was rearrested for stealing cars, Tolson persuaded six lay friends to help the boy when his second term was up. Now the ex-convict has a wife, three children, and a steady job. "I lent him $1,000 to help buy a home," Tolson says proudly, "and he paid me back within a year...
Died. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, 82, pioneer British aircraft designer, who built his first plane in 1908 with $5,000 lent by his grandfather, formed his own company in 1920 and went on to design World War II's fighting Mosquito and later the Vampire, first jet fighter in the free world to exceed 500 m.p.h., from which he conceived the four-jet Comet airliner, in a brilliant but crash-plagued attempt to capture the passenger market from U.S. planemakers; of a heart attack; in Watford, England...
...Party III to make one of the crucial monetary decisions of the decade: whether to advance a $1.4 billion loan to Britain to enable it to prop up the pound. Britain needed the money to repay the $750 million that it has already used out of the $3 billion lent it by central banks last November, when the pound was being attacked-and to provide a cushion that would make unnecessary any further drawing...