Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of correspondents' search for the war was the trip last week of LIFE Photographer John Dominis, the Associated Press's John Griffin, and Magnum Photographer Marc Riboud. Armed with a letter from rebel headquarters giving them passage to the front, the trio set out in a wayward bus named Picnic. Stumbling across a battle convoy, they produced the letter-only to learn that they were among government troops...
...theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...
Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the department of History, echoed the sentiments of many of his colleagues, saying that he had "long felt that the Ph. D. needed overhauling." He maintained that the thesis should not be a "magnum opus," but rather a "specimen eruditionis," but feared that broad changes in the degree would be opposed by a "conservative attitude" on the part of present graduate students...
...done invaluable work in defining the concept of the psychopath, a concept which was very unclear before. McCord's work with the psycopath, a person with very little conscience, is closely linked to his other major interest, that of the development of conscience. He plans to do his "magnum opus" on the latter subject within the next ten years...
...daring. Violence lad shadowed Shim's life: the Nazis destroyed his family in Poland, and a Communist land mine in Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos Inc. Yet Shim, who replaced Capa as president of Magnum, was no combat specialist; lis most memorable pictures, collected in the UNESCO book Europe's Children, were compassionate shots of orphans in the rubble of post-World...