Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michael H. Alderman, Alan S. Diamond, Lyle Guttu, Richard A. Herland, Thomas Lumbard, Theodore A. Miles, Carl S. Sloane, and Robert Storey will plan this year's Freshman Smoker, which will be held in March...
...Kenya Colony's leading political figure, big, bluff Michael Blundell, told Britain's Colonial Office in London last week that the Mau Mau have been losing ground ever since last April when Britain gave Kenya's blacks a bigger voice in local government. Loyal Kikuyu, bravely standing out against the terrorists in their tribe, have done much to turn the tide. Mau Mau are now surrendering to local authorities at the rate of 25 a week as opposed to a scanty two a week, six months ago. The 6,000-odd Mau Mau gangsters still at large...
...William Michael Harnett. Trompe-l'Oeil is an off-beat school of art that goes back to the legendary Greek, Zeuxis, who was said to have painted grapes so realistically that birds swooped down to peck at them. Roman and Pompeian decorators used fool-the-eye murals to give the illusion of spaciousness to narrow rooms. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the technique had turned into a whimsical exercise in craftsmanship, and it still enchants many realistic painters throughout the world...
...popular form of entertainment was the "living tableau" in which luxuriously-costumed people stood stock-still in the midst of lavish sets, portraying famous paintings or moments in history. I am afraid that Twentieth-Century Fox has produced the greatest living tableau of all, complete on a wide screen. MICHAEL J. HALBERSTAM...
Speakers are: Henry Shapiro, former U.P. correspondent in Russia; Professor of History Michael Karpovich, and Assistant Professor of Government Adam Ulam. The panel is free and open to the public...