Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saud caved in. Ordered out of the country, Ben Salem, who has his fortune stashed in European banks, flew off nonchalantly to Beirut. Forty-eight hours later, Saud got an even worse shock: one of his favorite wives, handsome Princess Im Mansour, vanished from the palace to join her lover, Ben Salem, in exile. The personal and political blows combined to impair the regal health once again. Moslem pilgrims to Mecca who were booked on half a dozen jet flights home suddenly found their passages had been canceled. Instead, the airliners flew to Riyadh, picked up the ailing King...
...edge painters seem direct heirs of the cubists and the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers and Mondrian. Their images are bare, blocky and geometric. But where an Albers questions the viewer's retina, these new abstractionists question his emotions. No cubist painting was designed to repel the viewer, to shock him with clashing colors, to fool him. The new abstraction calmly violates logic and frustrates the beholder. The children of the tantrum-prone abstract expressionists have turned out to be a tight-lipped...
...biggest shock of all for Harvard came in the discus, where George Levendis of Yale outthrew Heptagonals champion John Bakkensen...
...queer people live anyway -to be conditioned for human life." Though addicted to pretty women, as well as to slivovitz and strong cigars. Von Karman never married. He lived with his sister Josephine (Pipo), who managed much of his personal life until she died in 1951. Intimates expected the shock of her loss to kill him, but he continued his work with undiminished vigor. By his casual count, he had earned 24 honorary degrees, 10 decorations. 32 awards, and belonged to 33 scientific societies. Last week, while visiting Aachen, the city where he made his mark in the Kaiser...
...lights came up on the curtainless stage of East Berlin's Komische Oper last week, and there, pregnant with portents of disaster, hung a textured moon that looked like a fly's swollen eye. A shock. When John the Baptist was pulled barefoot from his cistern prison, his long matted hair hung down to his animal skin sarong. Another shock. Then came Salome with her veils and her dances, and in a spirit perfectly suggested by the jewel stuck in her navel, she treated an earnest audience to a performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight...