Word: lloyds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hoving, who derides the A.D.A. statement as "an absurd document-perfectly specious and contradictory." The Rousseau, he adds, "was of no importance to us" (although the Met owns only one other). This is not a view shared by most art experts or by Marlborough's senior partner, Frank Lloyd, who says, "In my opinion, it's a masterwork." Hoving defends the disputed sale in terms of the need to trim redundancies from the collection...
...around the objections, Texas Senators John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen drafted a bipartisan measure which transfers the highway project from the federal to the state government. By so doing, no federal funds would be lost (the money could go to build another Texas interstate highway somewhere else...
...LLOYD GEORGE KNEW MY FATHER More old parties, though not quite so ancient, take the stage in William Douglas Home's latest play. The title comes from an inane ditty dear to generations past: "Lloyd George knew my father/ My father knew Lloyd George," sung, ad infinitum, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers. This play features a potty old retired general (Ralph Richardson), whose thought processes seem to have stopped around World War I, and his spry-spirited wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She is resisting progress in another way by making calm, matter-of-fact preparations to commit suicide...
...enable Case Western Reserve to develop a new curriculum that will include, among other things, a study of popular song lyrics, science fiction and books such as The Greening of America and The Harrad Experiment; $232,622 was earmarked for Alice Lloyd College, a small institution in Kentucky, for new courses including one that would use drama to teach students their Appalachian culture; and $650,000 was for Fisk University for a new program that would incorporate teaching techniques like "guerrilla theater." Berman said these elements of the three projects failed to meet the endowment's standards of quality...
...Grand Teton, the Park Service plans a highly visible burn near Jackson Hole, Wyo., to test public reaction and begin the re-education process. Says Grand Teton Research Biologist Lloyd Loope: "We haven't so much an epidemic of mountain pine beetles as of overmature lodgepole pines." He warns that if the policy of putting out all fires is continued, there will be periodic insect infestations, like the endemic pine beetle problem, as well as a decrease in the diversity of p.ants, animals and birds. Loope believes that allowing natural fires to burn...