Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different developments in evolution. And geology furnishes a good transition to studies of skeletons and dermal structure, for the evidence of these is founds in rocks. The ten main phyla are studied, with special emphasis on the chordates, and particular attention to the mammals. A study of the reproductive process in mammals provides an effective sex education...
...paper, from 1500 to 5000 words. The "source theme" is the big academic adventure (or bane, depending upon one's out look) of the senior year. In this six-week project, students leaf through a couple of dozen books and scribble a gross of note cards in an involved process which a Harvard student goes through only with his honors thesis. Unfortunately complication and not critical analysis of a subject is stressed, but the practise does provide a valuable preview of research methods. With his source theme behind him, the Scarsdale student is better able to attack the usual college...
Though the atmosphere was full of the alarms of civil war, France last week brought General Charles de Gaulle to power without one life spent in the process...
...corpulent Cinemagician Orson Welles let fly with a frustrated bleat in self-defense. Although he is listed as Touch of Evil's writer and director, wrote Welles, the picture's flaws are not all his: the film appeared after "wholesale re-editing by the executive producer, a process of rehashing in which I was forbidden to participate. Confusion was further confounded by several added scenes which I did not write and was not invited to direct...
...travails that this situation causes an institution such as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is enough to make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean Arp for a forthcoming retrospective, the museum found that Arp abstractions painted with oil on canvas can enter duty free, but an Arp collage (made of pasted doilies, tapestry and cloth) is dutiable. Arp's abstract marble, Configurations of Serpent Movements...