Word: loring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown up in Geneva-a Geneva seething over the Dreyfus affair-the son of a clock merchant. He studied music in Brussels, Munich and Paris, but when his father's business went bad, he came home to help. As a child, he learned from his father the Jewish lore and emotional melodic strains that permeate his music, but he dislikes being classified, as he often is, as a racial composer...
Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...
Written shortly before his death, when Dreiser had forsaken institutionalized religion for a Communist party membership card, the thorough and obviously sympathetic discussion of Berenice's training in Yogi lore reveals that Dreiser has finally found solutions to problems long troubling him. Always religious in nature and temperament, Dreiser devoted a good deal of his life to a search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious...
...traditional European symbol of death is the skeleton with a scythe, toothy, faceless, but curiously fragile. Recently, a young, African art student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
...Junior Historians now have 88 chapters and 2,000 members in Texas. Six times a year, they publish a magazine, the Junior Historian, which is crammed with lore under such titles as "Uncle George Edgin's Recollections of Frontier Texas," "The First White Child Born in Texas," "Snakes and Whiskey" (the story of frontier medicine). Last week, its 43rd issue, written by and for the children, was in the works at Austin. Says Professor Webb proudly: "By gosh, we've done...