Word: meridian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold war in a cultural offensive of sorts. Her dreams of starring in a U.S.-Soviet co-production were heightened as U.S. Producer Lester Cowan and Soviet state film makers agreed to collaborate on a screen version of Novelist Mitchell Wilson's Meeting at a Far Meridian. Also making future missions to Moscow under a new two-year cultural pact that calls for more swaps of artists, students, newsreels, magazines. radio and TV programs: the New York City Ballet, the Robert Shaw Chorale and, for all those beat Bolsheviks, Swing King Benny Goodman. In return, the Soviets will export...
...imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are akin to cubist abstraction, but this seems a cold sort of evaluation for a man like Piranesi. He conceived visions of Rome, Horace Walpole said, "beyond what Rome boasted even in the meridian of its splendor. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes that would startle geometry, and exhaust the Indies to realize. He piles palaces on bridges, and temples on palaces, and scales Heaven with mountains of edifices. Yet what taste in his boldness...
...Houses. At Harvard-Radcliffe, which in all things encourages free play in developing local fancy, such a step toward worldly facelessness can only be deplored. What is wanting is a lyrical quality, or the deserved pomp. If the Houses must box the compass, they might at least be Meridian, Antipodes, Capricorn and Cancer...
...colleague's assistants (with whom the Russian is secretly in love, naturally), and an American expatriate living in Moscow whom Rennet is about to marry at the book's less than cosmic finish. With the exception of several vague references to the peaceful universality of science, Far Meridian is nonideological...
...royalties. He received no reply till two years later, when the Russians decided to serialize My Brother, and after a protracted exchange of cables deposited $6,000 in his U.S. bank account. Author Wilson has so far collected about $20,000, expects to make another $15,000 from Far Meridian...