Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always thoughtful, sensible, dignified and decorous." But until a collection of 1,458 love letters to "Miss Ellie Lou" was presented to Princeton University by the couple's youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor McAdoo, 72, the world's image of Wilson was just that. Covering a span of 31 years, from their first meeting until Mrs. Wilson's death from Bright's disease in the White House in 1914, the letters show a sentimental side of the man. In a letter shortly before Mrs. Wilson died, the President wrote to his vacationing wife: "Do you realize that...
Swoboda feels himself a member of an older generation, but one who is trying to span the gap with the new one--"I have been a revolutionary all my life--always for the avant-garde." But if he has respect for the "abstract feelings" of modern twelve-tone music and for its distance from the "material world," this sympathy has its limits. Swoboda feels that "every system is in the end based on tonality," and ridicules the break with traditional training in composition of Karlheinz Stockhausen...
...Peter Selz probably summed up Marées' contribution best when he noted that the artist always treated his nudes as "timeless creations of nature. Their significance is never that of the incidental but of some universal law." It was this quality that enabled Marées to span the ages and to search out eternal truths that lie beyond outward appearances. As he put it when writing about the drawings of Michelangelo: "Not the completeness of the image but the completeness of the understanding makes a thing a work...
...bank of the gold-bearing river Pactolus, an unusual Byzantine church with many small domes, Roman houses and porticoes with mosaics of animal hunts, and immense system of Roman water-mains, and Persian and Lydian houses span two thousand years of history...
...Francisco office cluttered with autographed photos of show business stars, boxes of spare Homburgs, and a "money tree" decorated with dollars, Real Estate Tycoon Louis Robert Lurie, 73, presides over his many business interests. They span movies ("I made all the early Tarzan pictures") to mining ("My record is perfect-I've lost every cent I ever invested"). He is also a lucky angel, having bankrolled such Broadway hits as Song of Norway and Pajama Game. But he made his fortune-estimated at more than $50 million-in buildings. He has built 226 of them, owns two dozen large...