Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST WEEK of September, Mims asked the court for a change of venue because of substantial publicity in both Morgan County and Huntsville's Madison County. The judge agreed, but he chose Cullman County as "the nearest adjacent county without prejudice." Less than 1% of the total voting population is black in Cullman County. Because of hiring practices, the small city of Cullman has historically kept blacks out. This, then, would be the "unprejudiced" site of Tommy Lee Hines' trial...
...elaborate sexual and emotional transactions fashionable among the Bloomsbury set. But the Victorian era boasted its own dramas of unlikely passion: Vita's mother, Lady Victoria Sackville, was herself the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish dancer and a Sackville heir. Courted by President Chester A. Arthur and J.P. Morgan-to name two of the more prominent suitors-she married her first cousin and embarked on a chaotic life that involved her in lawsuits, love affairs and implausible schemes for the preservation of Knole...
...been enhanced with major exhibitions in London, Venice and the U.S. The most notable show opens this week in the spectacular new East Building of Washington's National Gallery. The largest collection of Piranesi's relatively rare drawings went on display last week at Manhattan's Morgan Library. The Morgan is also publishing a catalogue that will illustrate its entire Piranesi holdings...
...stir, and he was forced to return to Venice, where the presiding geniuses at the time were Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi. The influence of Tiepolo freed Piranesi's line from cramped meticulousness favored by architectural engravers of the day. The result can be clearly seen in the Morgan show, where sketches for decorative panels and figure studies echo Tiepolo's and Guardi's free draftsmanship...
...physical education school at the University of Southern Mississippi, has attended a New Games Foundation workshop and liked its emphasis on involving people of all ages in physical activity. "But," he adds, "the new games are only a leisure pastime and have no relationship to competitive sports." Says Morgan Wootten, a successful basketball coach and athletic director at De Matha High School in Hyattsville, Md.: "We live in a competitive society. You don't have to win every time, but you have to care about winning. If we don't care, we can become a society of people...