Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After trekking 75 miles west to the Alaska Highway at Trutch, B.C., Farrel got the news through. Last week R.C.A.F. men flew north from Fort St. John to get Pich's body. Farrel had told them where to look for it: in a snowy tree's branches, safe from the wolves...
...Menotti has a talent for making small things go over big. He has even been overpraised as a new Puccini. Last year, a pair of his chamber operas, The Telephone and The Medium, were a surprise Broadway hit (TIME, March 3, 1947). Last week, Menotti gave New York a look at two of his earlier operas, and proved again that a night at the opera can be almost as much fun as a circus...
Anthropology studies Man in all his aspects, including his customs and cultures. Physical anthropology, which gives Man a much narrower look, measures his (and her) physical characteristics. The American Association of Physical Anthropologists recently met in Washington to swap some new measurements...
Last week President Truman took a look at the German masterpieces in Washington's National Gallery, and liked them so well that he brought his family back next day. The Trumans had one advantage over the crowd: they saw the show, after hours. Since it opened (TIME, March 29), 600,000 people had milled through. There was a record crowd of 67,490 last Sunday...
...without the least self-consciousness: "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green." When he was very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope, that my features are a good deal calmer, though my look is vaguer than formerly...