Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While ballerinas floated through the intricacies of Black and White, the ballet's choreographer. Russian-born Serge Lifar, 53, sat shaking with rage in a box beside France's No. 1 model. Marie-Hélene Arnaud. Lifar angrily told his friends he had forbidden his ballet to the marquis because it was the exclusive property of the Paris Opéra, where Lifar is the top choreographer and dancing master...
...more liberal whites can see no way out of the stalemate. They feel it is impossible to go back to the days of absolute white supremacy, which brought on the Mau Mau terror, and equally impossible to go ahead to granting Kenya complete (and all-black) independence on the model of Ghana. But if Mboya continues to reject the gradual "multiracial" approach to self-government, the result will be increasing racial tension that may end in a renewal of fighting-only this time with all the tribes and not just with the 1,500,000 Kikuyu, who supplied the hard...
Before being paroled (TIME, March 3), Leopold served 33 years of his sentence (life plus 99 years) in Illinois prisons for his share in the "Crime of the Century." His account of how he made the transition from front-page monster to model prisoner is pitiable, but it would need genius-which his friends seem to claim for him, and which he seems not to have -to make the story tragic. Such men as Leopold lead a strange existence-condemned to life, but forbidden to live it. The main part of the book is concerned with details of prison existence...
...inaugurated. The head of the statue of Spring was missing (some Florentines claim an Allied soldier took it), but Florentines contentedly examined the swirl of water under the arches and pronounced it just the same. To those who objected that "after all, the bridge is only a full-scale model of the original," Gizdulich replied: "Even though orchestras are not the same as they were then, we still play the works of Beethoven. I think we should go on playing them...
Dramaliturgy. In Baltimore, the Rev. George F. Packard, illustrating a sermon, produced a rubber-band-propelled model rocket (decorated with orange fins and the word "Soul"), created an illusion of blast-off by dropping Dry Ice in water at the moment of launching, sent the missile to the ceiling of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, cried: "Confirmation launches us into the flight of life, and the fuel is Holy Communion...