Word: sackler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more than a slimy piece of grave refuse. For three decades, it passed from buyer to buyer, largely unknown to archaeologists or art scholars. Then in 1965, the manuscript was bought by New York Psychiatrist and Art Collector Arthur Sackler. Last week, at a Columbia University symposium, the Ch'u Silk Manuscript, as it is now called, was examined and discussed by 40 of the free world's leading sinologists, anthropologists, archaeologists and art experts...
...since become one of the nation's most literate comedians, Mike Nichols-was eventually succeeded by a team that includes one of the best recording engineers in the field: Peter Bartok, the composer's son. The company's dramatic director is Poet-Playwright Howard Sackler, who says of his bosses: "They let you do just about anything you set your heart on, even if it won't pay its way for years." One of the rare exceptions: Lolita, which Marianne vetoed...