Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post office, Margery dropped the postcard-and it was picked up by a person or persons unknown. The postcard's text was mimeographed and passed around the school, and one Dapo Falase, a campus radical and president of the Student Union, called a rally to denounce the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of American imperialism" and "members of America's international spy ring." Margery Michelmore offered her resignation to the corps, her apologies to the students of the college for her "thoughtless postcard." Then she flew out of Nigeria...
This week, as Picasso celebrates his 80th birthday, the treasure goes on record in a new book illustrated and written by Duncan and printed under his supervision in Switzerland (and published in the U.S. by Harper*). Picasso's Picassos is more than a historymaking catalogue of the unknown paintings at the villa "La Californie"; it is also a touchingly sentimental journey into Picasso's life. Duncan spent six months photographing the paintings while Picasso watched and commented, and the book's 102 color plates thus take on an added dimension. As the reader examines them...
Pickets of unknown origin marched in circles before the entrance to the club, carrying placards which read: "Don't Let SANE Sell Us Out," "It's Later Than You Think," "Commies and Pacifists Are Kin Brothers," and "Live As a Nation Under...
...Byzantine engineers unwittingly preserved a masterpiece of sculpture, the bearded head of an unknown sage or saint, which the expedition found in the bedding of the Byzantine road. The head apparently belonged to a statue which stood in the colonnade before the Persian invaders destroyed...
...same mercantile age. And thrift did not make capitalism; it was enterprise that founded the great fortunes and industries. Even Horatio Alger, Samuelsson points out, always had his pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning the favour of rich relatives or bosses or millionaires' daughters, but not for achieving wealth singlehanded...