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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appearing before a convention of Susan B. Anthony's suffragettes, Victoria made a magnetic impression and won unanimous endorsement. Then her moth er spoiled everything by revealing that the presidential nominee maintained her husband and her lover together under the same roof. Victoria stoutly defended her new freedom, but her political cause was lost. She spent election night 1872 in jail, charged with sending obscene material through the mails, and Ulysses S. Grant beat her - and Horace Greeley - by a considerable margin...
...father, who was a bandmaster in General Grant's army.* The elder Ives was an inveterate experimenter with sound: to get new group effects he would place part of his band on the village green in Danbury, part in a church steeple, and the rest on the roof of a house on Main Street, inviting them all to play together. By the time young Charles Ives got to Yale, he was already shocking his instructors with his own experiments on weird harmonies and erratic rhythms...
...things. And the medical center is big indeed. A single, two-wing building, the state's largest, houses in one end the classrooms and laboratories for teaching the basic medical sciences in four schools: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing. With the four schools under one roof, students mingle, learn each other's problems and viewpoints from sharing many of the same lab facilities and teachers. In the Teaching Hospital wing, where Mrs. Lawson was admitted, are beds for 522 patients, ultramodern operating theaters, and a variety of outpatient clinics...
Wright had hoped that the main light in the huge round gallery would come from the glass dome roof. Sweeney installed bright fluorescent lighting. He painted the walls a dazzling white ("Sweeney white-the color of death!" protested Wright), and to overcome the artists' lament that their paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...
...their blood feuds. From the iyth century on, they built tower dwellings resembling the Italian campanile, and the status symbol of the day was to have the highest tower. It was also a key vantage point from which to rain down rocks on an enemy neighbor's marble roof. As soon as one member of a family was killed, clan warfare was declared, with the towers as citadels. When gunpowder was introduced, cannon fired away at point-blank range across the narrow streets, and not a move could be made by day without a fusillade of gunshots. Food...