Word: moe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, quietness seems to save the ears. Dr. Moe Bergman, of the Hunter College Speech and Hearing Center, and Dr. Samuel Rosen tested hearing among the Mabaans of Sudan, a tribe so primitive that they do not even beat drums, and found it pin-drop sharp...
Gauguin did not always rely on available models. The studio of Charles Spitz, then Tahiti's only professional photographer, supplied him with inspiration for his art. His Pape Moe (The Mysterious Water), which shows a Tahitian boy drinking from a mountain spring, was painted from a Spitz photo. In la Orana Maria, one of his best-known canvases, the Tahitian figures strike poses deriving entirely from a photograph of a Javanese-temple frieze that Gauguin had brought from Paris...
...Died. Moe Gale, 65, co-founder and longtime proprietor (1926-54) of Harlem's once famed, now torn-down Savoy Ballroom, where happy feet first stomped out the Lindy Hop, Big Apple and Susie-Q, and such cats as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, and Chick Webb first strutted their swinging stuff; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...second game three quarter half George Carver took a pass from a loose scrum in the opening minutes and ran 20 yards to the goal line for the first try. Scrum man Moe Zuckerman scored later in the first half on a 50 yard run that left many fallen M.I.T. ruggermen in his path. Scrum half Billy Marslott kicked the conversion...
...Anyone can make a nomination" for the Aspen Award, says Eurich, and candidates may be in any humanistic field, such as philosophy or history, as well as literature. Final selection will be made by such eminences as William DeVane, longtime dean of Yale College, Henry Allen Moe, veteran dispenser of Guggenheim fellowships, and Lord Franks, former British Ambassador to the U.S., now provost of Oxford's Worcester College. The goal: "To recognize those creative persons who are contributing most to the clarification of the individual's role and his relationship to society...