Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real trouble was the show itself. Maria Golovin, Menotti's first opera score since The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954) and his third commissioned by NBC was the only new musical work of any importance unveiled at the Brussels fair. It was a disappointment...
...auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
...Abidjan, villagers still slaughter small children and toss their disemboweled bodies into the river to make sure of a good year's fishing. Until this year, Mauritania, whose Berber people call themselves "whites" (Bidanes), felt itself too poor to have a capital of its own: it shared Saint-Louis, which was the capital of black Senegal. In Dahomey, which means "The Belly of Dan," after an ancient king who ate his victims, the fiercest warriors were once the Amazons. And among the Tuareg tribes of the Niger, it is the men, not the women, who wear veils...
Dior's Designer Yves Saint-Laurent, who had helped set the mode with his trapeze look last winter, scored no such acclaim last week. While almost every other designer kept hemlines at the knees, Saint-Laurent lowered them some five inches to just 15 inches above the floor. No one else showed any signs of going along. In fact, one U.S. buyer who ordered some Dior dresses specified that they be delivered four inches shorter...
...whites and blacks to live in the same community, the question arose: Just where could the Matimbas go? At first, Patrick, the son of a Negro Anglican priest, helpfully offered to become his own wife's servant -the only kind of Negro permitted to live among Europeans. Then Saint Faith's Anglican Mission, in the white tobacco-growing settlement of Rusape, where his father had worked, gave Patrick a job as a ?12-a-month storekeeper, and two rooms where he and his family could live together in the mission. It seemed a satisfactory solution-until the whites...