Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...
...Belmont Abbey has forsworn some customary monastic pursuits: 15 years ago, all of Belmont's cooking and shoemaking was done by monks; now they have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar and rubble...
...Ivry-sur-Seine (constituency of French Communist Chief Maurice Thorez), where the suburb's Red mayor changed the street to Rue Lenine...
...terrace of a colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht Shemara. In the warm Mediterranean darkness, the surf pounded restlessly against...
...painter at Ravoux's, the one we call Le Rouquin [The Redhead]? He has shot himself with a pistol in the park behind the chateau." So, recalls 89-year-old Henry Maurage, the news that Vincent Van Gogh was dead swept through the obscure town of Auvers-sur-Oise one Sunday in July 1890. Since then the small town where Van Gogh ended his tortured life and the tiny room where he lived have become historical shrines...