Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those of us who don't have girl friends, Mount Auburn Cemetery has always been a place where they bury people. It was a curious institution, this Mount Auburn, where, rumors suggested, every literateur from Euripides to Ernest Hemingway was entombed. Just to make sure, and to satisfy an insistent editor-boss, we strolled through its sacred arbors one misty, ethereal afternoon this week; frankly, we wish we'd never gone...
...Mount Vesuvius was blazing in several places ... A black and dreadful cloud bursting out in gusts of igneous serpentine vapor now and again yawned open to reveal long, fantastic flames, resembling flashes of lightning, but much larger . . . Cinders fell . . . then pumice-stones too, with stones blackened, scorched and cracked by fire...
...have sunk to a new low in slurring the opponents of the Great White Father who golfs on Mount Olympus...
...gouache or oil by France's most popular younger painter, 28-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952 et seq.), costs up to $3,500. One print from his 75-edition Still Life with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph The Watchman; for one of the signed edition of 200, the price drops...
Into dozens of good works J.D.R. Jr. probed restlessly, pouring millions into U.S. universities and colleges and especially into Negro colleges, spurring research into oceanography and astronomy, e.g., the 200-in. telescope at Mount Palomar. broadening out from his closed-in Baptist childhood to support fervently the Protestant Interchurch World Movement, to help out increasingly on large-scale Catholic and Jewish projects...