Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ending up, according to legend, over a bedstead in a Dutch farmhouse. There, in the early 1800s, a traveling British art restorer named George Barker saw and picked it up for one shilling, which also included the price of bed and breakfast. Barker presented it to his patron, Lord Spencer. In 1915 it passed into the hands of Sir Herbert Cook for $168,000. Last week it was up for auction in London's Christie's auction house, identified simply as Item...
This year Hobbes, Locke, Bacon, and other "classics" were dropped from a reading list that now centers almost exclusively around late 19th and 20 the Century commentators. Last year's sophomores learned about the biological concept of culture through reading, in chronological order, Mill, Darwin, Spencer and come. This year the sophomores read only Kluckhohn, treating the concept as a concept rather than as a study in intellectual history...
Renoir called his Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture "Considerations in Film Making." However, as if demonstrating that "art is the conversation of the artist," he did not lecture but conversed with his audience...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) with Spencer Tracy as a judge, Richard Widmark for the prosecution and Maximilian Schell for the defense...
...only does delicate and dangerous surgery inside and around the heart, especially in infants, demand exquisite skill in the chief surgeon: he must have equally skilled helpers, and they all need as much practice as he does. "Open-heart surgery," say Dr. Eiseman and Dr. Spencer, "unfortunately has a totally undeserved role as a professional status symbol." It is no field, they add, "for those who follow the fads." In recognition of the problem, cardiologists in smaller cities are beginning to refer more of their patients to the busy surgeons in the big centers...