Word: wearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school newspaper and served as student council president. After that he worked days in an insurance office while attending, at night, the University of Minnesota and then the St. Paul College of Law, from which he graduated magna cum laude. "We had enough to eat and enough to wear," says a younger brother, Paul. "But I suppose we'd be considered deprived today...
...Youngstown steelworker, Humphrey followed his father into the mills, then quit to study art at Youngstown University and in Paris before coming to New York. A cheery sort, who refuses to wear a beard because it is "too establishment among artists," he began with representational painting. Then, he explains, "I got to a point where objects didn't mean anything any more." Humphrey's canvases of 1964 and 1965 were cold-gray with narrow colored borders. Slowly softer and more vibrant colors began to glow in his works. Humphrey says that the added warmth of his latest pictures...
...Cage embroidered the variations with snippets from works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Gottschalk, Busoni-even Cage. Each player had seven 20-minute chunks of music to choose from. Once having played, he was free to chat for a while with the listeners (who were given fluorescent plastic overalls to wear), then play the same chunk over again, or launch into another. Meanwhile, some 52 loudspeakers spouted sounds from as many different tape tracks, each confined to a different slice of the octave, each containing from five to 56 microtones, each following a pattern programmed by Cage's collaborator, Composer...
Sihanouk at first ordained that, to give the operation a bit of class, each bettor must wear a tie. Standards slipped quickly. The basic gaming uniform now is simply shirt, long trousers and shoes. For barefoot peasants who have the dels to gamble, a rent-a-sandal business thrives just outside the casino entrance...
...last week's maiden transatlantic crossing of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (oneway fares: $490 to $3,000), the VIP list read like a page from the London telephone directory and the formal wear was mostly rented. Newspaper reporters divided their attention between F.D.R.'s youngest son John and a passenger notable chiefly for having made 22 previous crossings. Desperately, they wove vignettes from such unpromising material as the pet white mouse in a first-class stateroom, the ship's minor collision with a whale, and a vicar selling oak trees to reforest Sherwood Forest. With the weather...