Word: refreshers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between courses, in truly Lucullan meals, the diner may be served a bit of sherbet "to refresh the palate." Yet in feasting on art, the viewer usually plunges from room to room, and his retinas, unrefreshed between rich courses, cry for cool relief. Such, at least, seems to be the art-gastronomy theory of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; as the architect of a new museum in the south of France, he solves this and a number of other gallerygoers' problems...
...past a number of students have asked for specific suggestions concerning readings, so that advance preparations may be made for the coming year.... Arithemetic processes are often a problem for many students, and it would help you to refresh your competency in the area before arriving in the fall...
...fellows do not have a fixed schedule of classes to attend and will not work toward a degree. Instead, they will "read, study, reflect, associate with scholars, and refresh themselves intellectually" under the terms of the program...
Culture & Refresher. To get repeat business from travelers who have seen the Caribbean or Greek islands several times, cruises are offering a new variety of on-ship activities. American Export Lines, for example, is running a Caribbean "Culture Cruise" that leaves New York this week. The culture seekers will be able to gaze at a gallery of paintings by artists from Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington to Ben Shahn and Milton Avery, will be lectured by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Critic John Mason Brown, Poet John Ciardi and Manhattan's Whitney Museum Director Floyd Goodrich as the ship steams...
...next 300 years the Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...