Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because we don't quite know on sight who is who, we soon begin to lose the threads of the sloppily woven plot. Briefly stated, the opera tells of the rivalry between the princes Khovansky and Golitzin and their attempt to usurp the throne...
...stories of the 1960 season. In the National League, onetime Second Baseman Daniel Edward Murtaugh, 42, was manager of the pennant-bound Pittsburgh Pirates (TIME, June 13). In the American League, onetime Catcher Paul Rapier Richards, 51, was manager of the pennant-contending Baltimore Orioles (TIME, June 6)-win, lose or draw the year's most exciting team. Taken together, Murtaugh and Richards show how savvy baseball pros use contrasting techniques to build winning clubs...
...Reason," said the Belgian painter James Ensor, "is the enemy of art. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling." Ensor himself never ran the risk: in the 89 years he lived, he gave to the world a strange and eerie legacy that sometimes seemed to be the work of a madman. But though he shocked his contemporaries, he ranks today as the greatest Belgian painter of modern times. This week a good sampling of his work went on display at Manhattan's World House Galleries, and a handsome new book, James Ensor, by Paul Haesaerts (Abrams...
Bartenders & Cowboys. The householder also benefits. The best home-repair clubs take pains to find honest and efficient contractors, follow through to make sure the work is done properly at reasonable prices. It usually is; the contractor knows he stands to lose not one but hundreds of customers...
...strong sense, the finish of the 1,500-meter race dramatized the central point of the 1960 games: win or lose, never before had so many athletes from so many nations achieved such a high pitch of competitive accomplishment. Among the top events of the Olympics' final week...