Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nine ACSR members voted against the study, with none in favor, because "interaction with other countries is fundamentally a good thing to do except in very, very rare cases," Reiling said...
...Paul Mellon's only colossal gift to the world of art. Between 1966 and 1968, he laid out $18 million to build, equip and maintain the Yale Center for British Art. He also paid for everything in it: 1,200 paintings, 10,000 drawings, 16,000 rare books and 10,000 reference books, 18,000 prints, and a study archive of 90,000 photographs. Their value is not publicly known, but it stands well over $100 million, since Mellon's bequest to Yale forms the most systematic collection of British art, mainly 18th and early 19th century...
...started by the ruthless city-boss Lorenzo Il magnifico himself, prolonged by his sons, nourished by poets, flacks and hero-seeking historians from Poliziano to Jakob Burckhardt, it seems ineradicable, like kudzu. In fact, Lorenzo de Medici was not a remarkable art patron; he preferred jewelry, knickknacks, antiques and rare manuscripts to either painting or contemporary sculpture. The idea of disinterested art patronage in the service of some imagined "public good" did not occur to him−any more than it would have occurred to his successors, the royal families and saber-toothed generalissimos of 16th and 17th century Europe...
...reading period (you heard it here first), at least to judge by the worried looks of the students who hurry by, books in hand and heads hung low. And even that rare species of bird that is known as the rock reviewer falls prey to the incipient fear of academic probation officers rousing one from a deep sleep in the dead of night to inform you of your coming year abroad, to begin at once. All of which is to say that I am not the inimitable Rich (go ahead and cast a furtive glance down to the byline...
...consider him the world's greatest living sitarist, he dislikes publicity and giving concert tours, and has not become very well-known outside of the Indian subcontinent. His lecture-demonstration at the Cabot Hall living room on Friday and his concert at Jordan Hall in Boston on Saturday were rare opportunities for Americans to experience Khan's virtuoso technique and original style...