Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Britain (there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa...
...what one contemporary called "a sweet contest of nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms...
...ballet on which Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine and Satie collaborated, he wrote a score including parts for typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. An eccentric in his personal life as well, he went about with a lighted clay pipe stuck in his jacket pocket, its stem reaching up to his ear. He became associated with the Rosicrucians, later founded a religion of his own, "the Metropolitan Church of the Art of Jesus the Conductor." He then issued his own encyclicals and excommunicated his enemies (including the music critic Willy, husband of Colette...
...Khrushchev saluted his fellow Communists at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow last week: "It is a good time we all live in. The ice has broken, as it does during spring flood; everything is in turmoil. Everything moves ahead in its historical development. Vain are the efforts to stem the liberation struggle...
...Indian speakers, Miss M. A. Devaki, research associate of the Indian Cooperative Union, and Tiruvenkat Seshadri, senior sub-editor of the Times of India, agreed that India's domestic and foreign dilemmas stem from the role of international leadership it has had to assume since...