Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sacre Cordon Bleu! French Master Chef René Verdon, 41, who steamed out of the White House kitchen complaining about the Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...
...public and independent schools in the Boston area. The aim has been to draw the practicing educator, the pedagogical scholar, the historian, the philosopher and the social scientist together in an ever broadening concept of what to teach the school's 800 students. Ever since Harvard started its Master of Arts in Teaching degree in 1936, the emphasis has been on fulltime graduate study (as compared with the customary "summer school" advancement) in preparing teachers and education leaders...
...stripped to the bone by the howling winds of life, a man strides past another on a barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
Actually, few of the 2,000-odd paintings that are recognized Rubenses were totally done by his hand. He ran a well-organized factory with pupils and assistants who blocked out figures and filled in landscapes based on his sketches. Then Rubens would overpaint here and there, lending his master touch...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee would have 14 members including one Cliffie from each of the three Houses. The appointments would be made by the Master and Dean of each House, subject to the approval of the Radcliffe Government Association. The RGA would also be required to finance 20 per cent of the operating expenses of the committee...