Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built for King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon about 580 B.C. and having reliefs of lions, bulls and dragons in white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty 7½-ft.-high bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned by King Eumenes II in Asia Minor about 180 B.C. ¶ A roomful of Botticelli drawings illustrating the Divine Comedy. ¶ Hundreds of top-rank Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Chinese statues and ceramics. ¶ Cranach's Judith and Holofernes, Bosch's small Temptation of St. Anthony, Hals's Mulatto...
...music, a clue comes when a minor character (representing Menotti's caricature of modern-minded critics) deplores the romantic 19th century and asks: "Must music be only sweet?" In this work, as never before, Menotti proves himself essentially a 19th century composer. At its worst, the Golovin score is not only too sweet but too facile. Example: when the hero stomps up and down waiting for the heroine to keep a rendezvous, the effect is reminiscent of "suspense music" on a TV show. At its best, the score is hauntingly tender and compelling, notably in a trio, which...
Three years ago the U.S. Air Force Academy was only a piece of level ground at Colorado Springs. The student body was located temporarily at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base as the football team took on freshman and minor-college opposition with indifferent success. But last week the academy's Falcons found themselves in astonished possession of an unbeaten record in big-time competition, aspirations of national ranking. Reason: a 37-year-old coach named Ben Martin...
...obvious to Dr. Calvin that on other planets life may have developed to a "posthuman" state, in which creatures on man's level have been succeeded by some higher organism. Dr. Calvin's conclusion: "Life is not a rather special and unique event on one of the minor planets around an ordinary sun at the edge of one of the minor galaxies in the universe," but "a state of matter widely distributed throughout the universe...
Blameworthy Bull. The bulk of the Japanese navy was divided into four groups. Two minor groups made up the southern force, which was supposed to steam through Surigao Strait between Leyte and Mindanao. The main striking group was the central force, under Vice Admiral Kurita. which was to steam through San Bernardino Strait north of Leyte between Samar and Luzon. Like two arms of a nutcracker, the two fleets were to converge on Leyte Gulf, wipe out. amphibious and supply craft there, and isolate MacArthur's forces on the island. A third (northern) force under Vice Admiral Ozawa...