Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crown of glittering and priceless jewels," was Arthur Houghton Jr.'s metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly...
...part, the U.S. did not do much to nurture East-West good will. The Cleveland courts were larded with three layers of asphalt and topped with a cementlike finish, all of which made the surface considerably faster than any the Rumanians have ever seen. The tourney was also notably lacking in traditional tennis gentility. While S.D.S. demonstrators chanted outside that the Davis Cup was a "function of the capitalist pigs," the Americans charged that the Rumanians were "rude," and the Rumanians accused court officials of making "strange calls." The matches themselves verged on farce. The U.S. team of Arthur Ashe...
...intriguing part of the album is the long, interlocked medley on Side 2 -a kind of odyssey from innocence to experience. After a dawn-flecked prelude...
...transcultural humor of The Beverly Hillbillies. Deeds is a bumpkin newspaper editor who unexpectedly inherits the financial empire of a robber-baron uncle and moves to Manhattan to redress family wrongs. In the first episode, TV Actor Monte Markham (The Second Hundred Years) wrestled with the Gary Cooper part and an intractable script...
...scarce investment funds. Some local governments may be able to increase taxes or find other ways to raise construction money. But most of the public facilities that were to have been financed by the unsuccessful bond issues probably will be long delayed, if not shelved entirely. That is part of the price that the U.S. must pay for having allowed inflation to rage unchecked for too long. The price, however, is being made unnecessarily high by the proposals to tax municipal-bond interest...