Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atomic explosions go, the recent Gnome test in New Mexico (TIME, Dec. 22) was relatively feeble. It generated only five kilotons of energy. But last week Chief Seismologist Leonard M. Murphy of the Coast and Geodetic Survey announced that Gnome's earth waves were recorded by seismographs near Tokyo, 6,000 miles away. Uppsala, Sweden (5,200 miles), Sodankyla, Finland (5,000 miles), and Fairbanks, Alaska (3,000 miles) also detected the explosion, and all the stations recorded the "first motion," the outward push that is characteristic of bomb waves and can distinguish them from natural earthquake waves...
Last week Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries had on display the first one-man Münter show in the U.S.-44 paintings whose colors glow in bright chunks and whose landscapes shimmer under blazing skies. Gabriele is the sole surviving member of Germany's Blue Rider group, which included not only Kandinsky but Franz Marc and Paul Klee.* In spite of her bright palette, there is no gaiety in her canvases; they are intense, charged with emotion, and all a trifle sad-like the artist herself...
Three mighty collections in progress for historians and readers of history: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Volume III), edited by Leonard W. Labaree; The Adams Papers (Volumes I to IV), edited by L. H. Butterfield; and The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (Volumes I and II), edited by Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke...
...Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A program of Christmas music seldom heard, including selections by Poulenc, Messiaen, Foss, Handel, Bach and Britten...
GARY: WEST SIDE STORY continues to be the best in town these days. All the bittersweet flavor of the Broadway play has been faithfully preserved. Leonard Bernstein's superb score and Jerome Robbins' choreography more than make up for occasional bad acting in this version of Romeo and Juilet in gangland...