Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of seven trustees and seven professors had run through a list of 70 possible presidential candidates. But every time they met, explained Board Chairman Fairfax Cone, "all had the same candidate-Mr. Levi. He was our standard. No others matched that standard." A shy, unpretentious man who likes bow ties and fine cigars, Levi, 56, has employed a dry wit and a lawyer's tough logic in his pivotal task under Beadle: raiding other faculties of their top talent. An aristocratic intellectual who reads widely at jet-pace speed, Levi developed a rapport with academicians that neatly complemented...
...what marvels the yogi has in store for his disciples is a good question. Yet for openers he has persuaded the Beatles to renounce drugs. Paul claims that he now realizes that taking drugs was "like taking an aspirin without having a headache." Says John: "If we'd met Maharishi before we had taken LSD, we wouldn't have needed to take it." Skeptics notwithstanding, the Beatles could well be on to something fruitful again, which may find expression in who knows what strange new musical forms...
...curved like an inverted halfmoon. The legislature was honoring him with a special resolution offering "warm gratitude for the pleasure he has brought to the world." Replied Clown Emmett Kelly, 68: "I wish I could hug and kiss every woman here and shake hands with every man." Later, Kelly met his match in another seasoned performer, Governor Ronald Reagan, and, after an exchange of show-bizzy sallies, begged off: "Don't make me laugh, Governor. I can't be seen smiling...
...Valeria Tarnowska, then commissioned a second Perseus, which many consider even more finely modeled and technically expert than the first. The Polish countess paid 3,000 Italian gold sequins for it (about $120,000). Her heirs sold it in 1850, after her death, to a wealthy Austrian family. The Met, which bought it from the same family early this year in private negotiations, declined to discuss what effect two centuries of inflation had had on the price...
There and then, Dr. Hartogs decided that he had stumbled on "a significant clue to the psychodynamics of our culture." According to his theory, the Chatterley decision set Vassar girls to start cussing like gamekeepers. Clearly, he met few Vassar girls before the decision. But now he hears from middleclass patients what he once heard only from ghetto types such as those he encounters as chief psychiatrist of the New York Detention House for Juvenile Delinquents...