Word: scrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deny to Scholar Kinsey: 1) six naughty Chinese paintings dating from about 1750, 2) some spicy Parisian lithographs, 3) a handful of wooden and stone phallic symbols from China, 4) a little 18th century tome titled The Lascivious Hypocrite, or The Triumphs of Vice, 5) a rather obscene Japanese scroll, 6) filthy drawings and lewd notations, tagged simply, "lavatory wall inscriptions...
...sweeping front lawn. Checking on imports from the Orient (a service" the museum performs gratis for some art importers) has also tipped Fuller off to good buys, set him up to get in first bids to dealers. Thanks to Fuller, the museum today owns the only Japanese broken ink scroll by Sesshu (TIME, May 14) outside Japan; its 16th century Japanese water jar (bought by Fuller for $1,600) is a mate to one of Japan's "national treasures...
Like their forebears', the violinmakers' first problem is finding the right wood. Some of it comes from the Italian Tyrol, some from the beams of 16th century buildings-fir for resonant belly and side walls, hard maple for back, neck and scroll. It is seasoned for 25 to 300 years. Testing for quality, the fathers twisted and tapped the wood as they worked it; their sons now listen with electronic ears and compute its acoustical properties. The instrument is put together with glue-also mixed for its resonant qualities-and at that point it is as mechanically perfect...
Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus Christ (TIME, April 2), scroll snobs reminded one another that Allegro, though his surmises seemed wild, had been one of the few to study the copper scrolls when they were opened (by coating them with plastic and slitting them into strips). Perhaps, they whispered, his high-wire speculations would prove to be sound after...
...opening of the Arts Festival, "Expressions," at the International Student Center yesterday, Robert F. Bradford '23 (above) a former President of the Center's Board of Directors, received a scroll honoring him for his work, from Mrs. Myron A. Hofer and Teodoro Abueva, co-chairman of the festival...