Word: robed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moses Barton strides into Cockpit Centre wearing a blue turban, white robe, and carrying a shepherd's staff. He announces to the startled Jamaican Negroes that he has come as a messenger of God "to break the neck of cowardice and slavery" and lead them out of bondage...
...Strasbourg in Transition, won the coveted Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for 1958. Ford has also written on seventeenth-century alignments of the French Robe and Sword and contributed to The Diplomats: 1919-1939. His most recent work was "The World of lightenment" in Columbia University's 1961 publication Chapters in Civilization...
...Sutherland tapestry-suffering perhaps from the great expectations built up over the years-is less obviously impressive. Christ in Majesty-presented in a billowing, almost feminine robe-seems lacking in majesty. But the tapestry is rich in arresting still lifes, and impressive as a modern success in a medieval art. It is 70 ft. high, 39 ft. wide, weighs more than a ton. Ten weavers of France's Pinton Freres spent four years copying every nuance of color and design marked out by Sutherland in his original 8-ft. by 4-ft. gouache...
...Impresario Sol Hurok's business. Since 1958, he has imported five companies,† toasted the dancers with champagne and caviar at hotel rooftop parties, and sent them off to the vast American steppes to spread cheer and make money. Last week a shy girl in a flowered robe and korsetki (a kind of satin juniper) stepped to the footlights at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house and uttered the words "Miz Ukraini" (We are from the Ukraine). Sol had brought...
...easiest way out is to get a pair of dark glasses. But another sensible solution is to ignore these new fashions, and (with only one exception) to stick with the somewhat less elegant, out-moded, and wearable clothes still offered. A basic warm-weather ward-robe should include probably one good dark two-piece suit (worsted or Dacron is your best bet); a seersucker or, if you will, cord suit, a pair of dark slacks, possibly a pair of white ducks, a couple of odd jackets, and plenty of lightweight sports shirts. (A cost run down on the above: dark...