Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applause from professional colleagues was not as loud; there have been more tut-tuts than cheers. Many British astronomers deplore Hoyle as cocky (which he is) and as disrespectful toward his elders (which he also is). Specific objections to the Cambridge theories, however, have been few. The reason, Hoyle says bluntly, is that few astronomers know enough physics and mathematics to understand what he is talking about...
Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
...Tut, tut, said Tate Director Rothenstein: "I know there has been some opposition. But in spite of this, Resurrection does have a spiritual intensity and prodigal imaginative force, which in my opinion amply justify its acquisition...
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Died. Dr. Herbert Eustis Winlock, 65, famed Egyptologist, onetime (1932-39) director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Venice, Fla. As associate curator of the museum's Egyptian Department, Winlock was one of the 22 people who saw King Tut-ankh-Amun's sarcophagus opened at Luxor...