Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordered the Veterans Administration to pay for home treatment of Albert Woolson, 108, in order to spare him the 165-mile trip from his Duluth home to the nearest VA hospital. Woolson, at 17 a drummer boy in Minnesota's 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, is the Union Army's lone Civil War survivor...
...founder was Emperor Hsuan who set it up, so the story goes, after he visited the moon and developed a taste for the entertainment in the Jade Palace of the lunar emperor. Luxurious as it is, Chinese opera is true popular entertainment, attended by anybody who can spare a few pennies, until its plots and morals have become a basic part of the culture...
...Educational Front. A $250,000 foundation set up by Montreal Barrister Charles Glass Greenshields will teach young painters the fundamental tech iques and principles of their craft. Greenshields, who paints seashore scenes in his spare time, deplores the fact that few young artists today get enough basic training. He blames "the iconoclasm and unbridled license of a rapidly growing and articulate group of artists and their sup porters who manifest a positive obsession to distort and, where possible, to dispense with all natural forms." Greenshields' huffing and puffing will never blow down the mansion of modern...
Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
...Optimates were a conservative elite of class-conscious constitutionalists. Marius was a leader of the Populars, and in 88 B.C. the Optimates, under the generalship of Sulla, ran him out of town and nailed the heads of his leading followers up in the Forum. Later Sulla was to spare young Julius, but warned, "One day this man may destroy the cause that you and I uphold. For this Caesar is worth six of Marius." Caesar went off to soldier in Asia, at 18, and won both honor and disgrace. For saving the life of a fellow soldier in combat...