Word: rosee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fitzgerald and his family moved to Italy, living there until the fall. During this period he translated the "Odyssey" and wrote his third book of poems, "In the Rose of Time...
...successful (profitable) ventures. Shows in the fifties had to be bigger money-makers than before to cover their expenses, and to insure large audiences producers would seek out more popular stars (regardless of whether or not they could act). Despite this subservience to popular taste, profits declined as costs rose still more, tickets became more expensive, and New York theatre attendance dropped...
...border, spider-webbed the once desolate Mexicali Valley with irrigation canals. Then in 1961, under the Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project in Arizona's Yuma Desert, U.S. cotton growers began draining salty irrigation water from their soil-and flushed the residue back into the river, whose salt content rose from a tolerable 800 parts per 1,000,000 to more than 6,000. Mexicali crops withered, and the Mexican government estimated farm losses at $80 million...
What in the world had prompted Billy Rose's handsome gesture? "About 200 of my friends see my collection in a year in my house," explained Billy. "Perhaps 20,000 people will see it on an average Sunday in Jerusalem. I decided to give it to Israel because it is hungrier for culture than any other country in the world." Rose has also made sure that his sculpture will have a spectacular setting: on an olive-studded hill in Jerusalem is the five-acre Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and landscaped with 10,000 tons...
...Rose confesses that he will miss his sculpture, which has sat niched away in closets, cellars and theaters. "Outside of the fact that you can't cuddle up to art," says he, "I get from it very much the same sort of joy that I get out of friendship with a beautiful girl." Rose feels that he is performing a noble divorce. Says he, "In this clip-clap, ragtag life, this is the most heart-warming thing I have ever done...