Word: ownings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two-Way Benefits. For these reasons, Britons are turning to the private alternative. When a patient pays his own bills, he can set the date for his operation and count on getting the surgeon he wants. He will recuperate not in a bustling ward but in one of the 4...
Pure Chauvinism. Last week leading cosmologists caustically deflated NASA's universe. "I don't believe a word of it," snapped Caltech's Maarten Schmidt, who in 1963 identified quasars as the most distant objects ever seen by man. "A bunch of nonsense," said Mount Palomar Astronomer Allan...
The eyes insist that there is order among these exhibitions. Most obviously, they define a chronology of seeing through 700 years, during which the Western vision has come full spiral from the hieratic to the hieratic. For the anonymous Byzantine monk painting the Mother of God, the stylized emotions of...
Two Ways of Seeing. But Europe's fall shows also suggest a second theme: just how people are seeing here, now. The solipsism reaches hysteria at the Biennale de Paris, which proclaims itself the "manifestation of the young artists," meaning those under 35. The preoccupation this year was style...
Taste of Absinthe. Like many newspaper editors, Beuve-Méry professed a policy of complete independence, "economically, politically and morally." Perhaps more than any, he followed it. Once, in 1951, when he felt the papers political independence threatened from within its top administration, Beuve-Méry resigned; he...