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...ballet company lowered the audience's guard with a lovely--if highly traditional--opening dance from the opera Sanson and Dclilah, only to follow it with the first big surprise of the evening. "Souls of Steel," a raucous and percussive piece that electrified that Reiman Center, setting up an energy that lasted all night...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mostly Nontraditional Jazz Under Foot | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

Boston's Sanson Institute of Heraldry puts coats of arms on everything from blazer patches ($14.95) to watches ($49.95). The American Heraldry Foundation in Clearwater, Minn., has a different approach. For a $39.95 fee, customers can suggest the motif of their shields. The Beihoffers, a farming family from Buffalo Lake, Minn., for example, picked a horse and plowshare and a spool of thread (sewing is Opal Beihoffer's hobby) for their coat of arms; because marriage and the home are important to the family, they also chose a pair of intertwined rings and a front door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Arms and the Mail | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...vast majority are ordinary citizens, most of them without any noteworthy lineage. Explains Halbert's Haslinger: "People get their shields because they are turned off by being a social security number. They want to remind themselves that they are something special." Adds Ken Kandler, president of Sanson's: "We sell instant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Arms and the Mail | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...readers can provide. Fallaw gives us exhaustive and often confusing detail: "I go under his arm over my head;" "rising and making two medium steps, he pushed shut the door;" "touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story so dry and ascetic that the reader must seek his pleasure in the rendering of realistic detail...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

...subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened last week to dire predictions that their country may be over run by an "invasion" of powerful U S corporations, whose investment there has risen to $1.2 billion. Said Rene Sanson of the National Assembly's finance commission: "The potential of the U S scares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: The Welcome Grows Cool | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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